Donne, John

Donne, John (1572 - 1631)

Index to poems
  1. A Hymn to God the Father
  2. A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany
  3. A Jet Ring Sent
  4. A Lame Begger
  5. A Lame Begger
  6. A Lecture upon the Shadow
  7. A Licentious Person
  8. A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
  9. A Self Accuser
  10. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  11. A Valediction: of My Name in the Window
  12. A Valediction: of the Book
  13. A Valediction: of Weeping
  14. Air and Angels
  15. An Anatomy of the World
  16. An Obscure Writer
  17. Antiquary
  18. Break of Day
  19. A Burnt Ship
  20. Cales and Guyana
  21. Community
  22. Confined Love
  23. Disinherited
  24. Elegy IX: The Autumnal
  25. Elegy V: His Picture
  26. Epitaph on Himself
  27. Fall of a Wall
  28. Farewell to Love
  29. Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
  30. Hero and Leander
  31. His Picture
  32. Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
  33. Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
  34. Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
  35. Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
  36. Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
  37. Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
  38. Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
  39. Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
  40. Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
  41. Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
  42. [Image and Dream]
  43. Jealousy
  44. Klockius
  45. Love's Alchemy
  46. Love's Deity
  47. Love's Diet
  48. Love's Exchange
  49. Love's Growth
  50. Love's Progress
  51. Love's Usury
  52. Lovers' Infiniteness
  53. Manliness
  54. Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
  55. Negative Love
  56. Niobe
  57. Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
  58. On His Mistress
  59. Phryne
  60. Pyramus and Thisbe
  61. Raderus
  62. Ralphius
  63. [Recusancy]
  64. Satire III
  65. Satire IV
  66. Sir John Wingefield
  67. Song ("Stay, O sweet, and do not rise")
  68. Song: Go and catch a falling star
  69. Song: Sweetest love, I do not go
  70. The Anagram
  71. The Anniversary
  72. The Apparition
  73. The Autumnal
  74. The Bait
  75. The Blossom
  76. The Bracelet
  77. The Broken Heart
  78. The Calm
  79. The Canonization
  80. The Comparison
  81. The Computation
  82. The Curse
  83. The Damp
  84. The Dissolution
  85. The Dream
  86. The Ecstasy
  87. The Expiration
  88. The Fever
  89. The Flea
  90. The Funeral
  91. The Good-morrow
  92. The Indifferent
  93. The Legacy
  94. The Liar
  95. The Message
  96. The Paradox
  97. The Perfume
  98. The primrose
  99. The Prohibition
  100. The Relic
  101. The Sun Rising
  102. The Triple Fool
  103. The Undertaking
  104. The Will
  105. To His Mistress Going to Bed
  106. To Mr. I. L.
  107. To Mr. Rowland Woodward
  108. To Mr. S. B.
  109. To Mr. T. W. [Pregnant again with th'old twins, Hope and Fear...]
  110. To Sir Henry Goodyere
  111. To Sir Henry Wotton [Here's no more news, than virtue: I may as well...]
  112. To Sir Henry Wotton [Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls...]
  113. To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice
  114. To the Countess of Bedford [Madam, Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right...]
  115. To the Countess of Bedford [To have written then, when you writ, seem'd to me ...]
  116. [Tutelage]
  117. Twicknam Garden
  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
0, 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
  • Thavies Inn



  • Lincoln's Inn



  • Hart Hall, Oxford



Religion
Honours
Occupations
  • Divine



Literary Period
Seventeenth century
Literary Movement
Metaphysical Poets
Illness
Buried At
Saint Pauls Cathedral, London
First RPO Edition
1997