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John Donne

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Start with A Hymn To God The Father. This page collects 28 public John Donne poems in one quiet reading path.

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  1. A Hymn To God The Father by John Donne

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    nature, death, solitude
  2. Air And Angels by John Donne

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    love, death, beauty
  3. Celestial Music by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  4. Elegy IX: The Autumnal by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  5. Holy Sonnet I: Tho Has Made Me by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  6. Holy Sonnet II: As Due By Many Titles I Resign by John Donne

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    solitude, grief, faith
  7. Holy Sonnet III: O Might Those Sighs And Tears Return Again by John Donne

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    nature, love, solitude
  8. Holy Sonnet IV: Oh My Black Soul! Now Art Thou Summoned by John Donne

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    death, beauty, solitude
  9. Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree by John Donne

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    nature, death, grief
  10. Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly by John Donne

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    nature, death, grief
  11. Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Play's Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint by John Donne

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    nature, death, hope
  12. Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  13. Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified by John Donne

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    love, death, grief
  14. Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud by John Donne

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    death, solitude, faith
  15. Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side by John Donne

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    love, death, solitude
  16. Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On? by John Donne

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    death, grief, identity
  17. Holy Sonnet XIII: What If This Present Were The World's Last Night? by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  18. Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  19. Holy Sonnet XV: Wilt Thou Love God, As He Thee? Then Digest by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  20. Holy Sonnet XVI: Father, Part Of His Double Interest by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  21. Holy Sonnet XVII: Since She Whom I Loved by John Donne

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    love, death, faith
  22. Holy Sonnet XVIII: Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  23. Song (Go And Catch A Falling Star) by John Donne

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    nature, love, beauty
  24. The Dream by John Donne

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    love, death, hope
  25. The Funeral by John Donne

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    nature, love, death
  26. The Primrose by John Donne

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    nature, love, hope
  27. The Prohibition by John Donne

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    love, death, solitude
  28. Woman's Constancy by John Donne

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    nature, love, death

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  1. Emily Dickinson 332 poems

    Shares nature, death, solitude

  2. George Gordon, Lord Byron 300 poems

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  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley 279 poems

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  4. Robert Burns 190 poems

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  5. William Shakespeare 159 poems

    Shares nature, death, solitude

  6. John Clare 132 poems

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