{"id":87,"date":"2021-09-21T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2021-09-21T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:57:14","slug":"the-canonization-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/annotated-poems\/the-canonization-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canonization, John Donne"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Canonization<\/strong>
\nBy John Donne<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For God’s sake\u00a0hold your tongue, and\u00a0let me love,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or chide my palsy, or my gout,<\/div>\n
My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Take you a course, get you a place,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Observe his honor, or his grace,<\/div>\n
Or the\u00a0king’s real, or his stamp\u00e8d face<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contemplate; what you will,\u00a0approve,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So you will let me love.<\/div>\n

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Alas, alas, who’s injured by my love?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What merchant’s ships have my sighs drowned?<\/div>\n
Who says my tears have overflowed his ground?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When did my colds a forward spring remove?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When did the heats which my veins fill<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Add one more to the plaguy bill?<\/div>\n
Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Litigious men, which quarrels move,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Though\u00a0she and I do love.<\/div>\n

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Call us what you will, we are made such by love;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Call her one, me another\u00a0fly,<\/div>\n
We’re tapers too, and at our own cost die,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And we in us find the eagle and the dove.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The ph\u0153nix riddle hath more wit<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By us; we two being one, are it.<\/div>\n
So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We die and rise the same, and prove<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mysterious by this love.<\/div>\n

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We can die by it, if not live by love,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0And if unfit for tombs and hearse<\/div>\n
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if no piece of chronicle we prove,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As\u00a0well a well-wrought\u00a0urn becomes<\/div>\n
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And by these hymns, all shall approve<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Us\u00a0canonized\u00a0for\u00a0Love.<\/div>\n

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And\u00a0thus invoke us:\u00a0“You, whom\u00a0reverend\u00a0love<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Made one another’s hermitage;<\/div>\n
You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who did the whole world’s soul contract, and drove<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Into the glasses of your eyes<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(So made such mirrors, and such spies,<\/div>\n
That they did all to you epitomize)<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Countries, towns, courts: beg from above<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A pattern of\u00a0your\u00a0love!”<\/div>\n

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The Canonization By John Donne For God’s sake\u00a0hold your tongue, and\u00a0let me love, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Take you a course, get you a place, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Observe his honor, or his grace, Or the\u00a0king’s … Continue reading The Canonization, John Donne<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4791,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","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\/4791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/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=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}