"The Canonization" John Donne John O'Brien Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup Students and Staff of the University of Virginia Rachel Retica National Endowment for the Humanities Literature in Context
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Published by Literature in Context under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License "The Canonization" John Donne Poems, by J. D., With Elegies on the Authors Death London M. F. for John Marriot 1633 We have taken our text from the Text Creation Partnership's digitized version of the 1633 edition of Donne's poems: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A69225/blob/master/A69225.xml. Donne's poems circulated in manuscript during his life time, and were not issued in a print version until this edition, which came out after Donne's death in 1632. The long "s" of the original has been modernized, but we have otherwise kept the original spelling. The title page has been sourced from Princeton University Special Collections. 200 English print single poem London, England

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 Numbered divs used. Library of Congress Name Authority File Library of Congress Classification Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Open Researcher and Contributor ID Rachel Retica created LIC edition. POEMS, By J. D[onne].WITHELEGIESON THE AUTHOR'SDeath. LONDON. Printed by M. F. for [J]OHN MARRIOT,and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street. 1633.
The Canonization. FOr Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsie, or my gout, My five gray haires, or ruin'd fortune flout, With wealth your state, your minde with Arts improve Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the Kings reall, or his stamped face Contemplate, what you will, approve, So you will let me love. Alas, alas, who's injur'd by my love? What merchants ships have my sighs drown'd? Who saies my teares have overflow'd his ground? When did my colds a forward spring remove? When did the heats which my veines fill Adde one more, to the plaguie Bill? Soldiers finde warres, and Lawyers finde out still Litigious men, which quarrels move, Though she and I do love. Call us what you will, wee are made such by love; Call her one, mee another flye, We'are Tapers too, and at our owne cost die, And wee in us finde the'Eagle and the dove, The Phoenix ridle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So, to one neutrall thing both sexes fit. Wee dye and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love. Wee can dye by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombes and hearse Our legends bee, it will be fit for verse; And if no peece of Chronicle wee prove, We'll build in sonnets pretty roomes; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as halfe-acre tombes, And by these hymnes, all shall approve Us Canoniz'd for Love. And thus invoke us; You whom reverend love Made one anothers hermitage; You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage, Who did the whole worlds soule contract, & drove Into the glasses of your eyes So made such mirrors, and such spies, That they did all to you epitomize, Countries, Townes, Courts: Beg from above A patterne of our love.