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Donne, John (1572 - 1631)

Index to poems

  1. Air and Angels
  2. The Anagram
  3. An Anatomy of the World
  4. The Anniversary
  5. Antiquary
  6. The Apparition
  7. The Autumnal
  8. The Bait
  9. The Blossom
  10. The Bracelet
  11. Break of Day
  12. The Broken Heart
  13. A Burnt Ship
  14. Cales and Guyana
  15. The Calm
  16. The Canonization
  17. Community
  18. The Comparison
  19. The Computation
  20. Confined Love
  21. The Curse
  22. The Damp
  23. Disinherited
  24. The Dissolution
  25. The Dream
  26. The Ecstasy
  27. Elegy IX: The Autumnal
  28. Elegy V: His Picture
  29. Epitaph on Himself
  30. The Expiration
  31. Fall of a Wall
  32. Farewell to Love
  33. The Fever
  34. The Flea
  35. The Funeral
  36. Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
  37. The Good-morrow
  38. Hero and Leander
  39. His Picture
  40. Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
  41. Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
  42. Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
  43. Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
  44. Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
  45. Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
  46. Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
  47. Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
  48. Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
  49. A Hymn to God the Father
  50. Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
  51. A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany
  52. [Image and Dream]
  53. The Indifferent
  54. Jealousy
  55. A Jet Ring Sent
  56. Klockius
  57. A Lame Begger
  58. A Lame Begger
  59. A Lecture upon the Shadow
  60. The Legacy
  61. The Liar
  62. A Licentious Person
  63. Love's Alchemy
  64. Love's Deity
  65. Love's Diet
  66. Love's Exchange
  67. Love's Growth
  68. Love's Progress
  69. Love's Usury
  70. Lovers' Infiniteness
  71. Manliness
  72. Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
  73. The Message
  74. Negative Love
  75. Niobe
  76. A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
  77. An Obscure Writer
  78. Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
  79. On His Mistress
  80. The Paradox
  81. The Perfume
  82. Phryne
  83. The primrose
  84. The Prohibition
  85. Pyramus and Thisbe
  86. Raderus
  87. Ralphius
  88. [Recusancy]
  89. The Relic
  90. Satire III
  91. Satire IV
  92. A Self Accuser
  93. Sir John Wingefield
  94. Song ("Stay, O sweet, and do not rise")
  95. Song: Go and catch a falling star
  96. Song: Sweetest love, I do not go
  97. The Sun Rising
  98. To His Mistress Going to Bed
  99. To Mr. I. L.
  100. To Mr. Rowland Woodward
  101. To Mr. S. B.
  102. To Mr. T. W. [Pregnant again with th'old twins, Hope and Fear...]
  103. To Sir Henry Goodyere
  104. To Sir Henry Wotton [Here's no more news, than virtue: I may as well...]
  105. To Sir Henry Wotton [Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls...]
  106. To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice
  107. To the Countess of Bedford [Madam, Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right...]
  108. To the Countess of Bedford [To have written then, when you writ, seem'd to me ...]
  109. The Triple Fool
  110. [Tutelage]
  111. Twicknam Garden
  112. The Undertaking
  113. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  114. A Valediction: of My Name in the Window
  115. A Valediction: of the Book
  116. A Valediction: of Weeping
  117. The Will
  118. Witchcraft by a Picture
  119. Woman's Constancy
Biography: 

All the poems by Donne included here, except "The First Anniversary" (1611) and "The Second Anniversary" (1612), were first published, after Donne's death, in the 1633 or 1635 editions of Poems, by J. D. Most of the non-religious poems may have been written by the time he was twenty-five.

Given Name: 
John
Family Name: 
Donne
Birth Date: 
1572
Death Date: 
March 31, 1631
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
father : John Donne
mother : Elizabeth Donne
wife : Anne Donne (from Dec. 1600)
daughter : Constance Alleyn Harvey
son : John Donne
son : George Donne
daughter : Bridget Gardiner
daughter : Margaret Bowles
daughter : Elizabeth Donne

Education

Spoken Languages: 
English
French
Italian
Spanish

Religion

Honours

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Seventeenth century
Literary Movement: 
Metaphysical Poets

Illness

Buried At: 
Saint Pauls Cathedral, London
First RPO Edition: 
1997