{"id":21,"date":"2021-08-24T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T21:52:37","slug":"john-donne-the-flea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/annotated-poems\/john-donne-the-flea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flea, John Donne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Flea<\/strong><br \/>\nBy John Donne<\/p>\n<p>Mark but this flea, and mark in this,<br \/>\nHow little that which thou deniest me is;<br \/>\nIt sucked me first, and now sucks thee,<br \/>\nAnd in this flea our two bloods mingled be;<br \/>\nThou know\u2019st that this cannot be said<br \/>\nA sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,<br \/>\nYet this enjoys before it woo,<br \/>\nAnd pampered swells with one blood made of two,<br \/>\nAnd this, alas, is more than we would do.<\/p>\n<p>Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,<br \/>\nWhere we almost, nay more than married are.<br \/>\nThis flea is you and I, and this<br \/>\nOur marriage bed, and marriage temple is;<br \/>\nThough parents grudge, and you, w&#8217;are met,<br \/>\nAnd cloistered in these living walls of jet.<br \/>\nThough use make you apt to kill me,<br \/>\nLet not to that, self-murder added be,<br \/>\nAnd sacrilege, three sins in killing three.<\/p>\n<p>Cruel and sudden, hast thou since<br \/>\nPurpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?<br \/>\nWherein could this flea guilty be,<br \/>\nExcept in that drop which it sucked from thee?<br \/>\nYet thou triumph\u2019st, and say&#8217;st that thou<br \/>\nFind\u2019st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;<br \/>\n\u2019Tis true; then learn how false, fears be:<br \/>\nJust so much honor, when thou yield\u2019st to me,<br \/>\nWill waste, as this flea\u2019s death took life from thee.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em>The Norton Anthology of Poetry<\/em> (1996)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flea By John Donne Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know\u2019st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead, Yet this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/annotated-poems\/john-donne-the-flea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Flea, John Donne<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3562,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}