{"id":937,"date":"2021-12-17T02:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/?page_id=937"},"modified":"2021-12-22T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:00:32","slug":"the-good-morrow-annotated-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/digital-editions\/the-good-morrow-by-john-donne\/the-good-morrow-annotated-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Annotated page 1: Definitions, Interpretation & References"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE GOOD-MORROW<\/strong><\/p>\n

by John Donne<\/p>\n

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
\nDid, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
\nBut sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
\nOr snorted we in the Seven Sleepers\u2019 den?
\n\u2019Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
\nIf ever any beauty I did see,
\nWhich I desired, and got, \u2019twas but a dream of thee.<\/p>\n

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
\nWhich watch not one another out of fear;
\nFor love, all love of other sights controls,
\nAnd makes one little room an everywhere.
\nLet sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
\nLet maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
\nLet us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.<\/p>\n

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
\nAnd true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
\nWhere can we find two better hemispheres,
\nWithout sharp north, without declining west?
\nWhatever dies, was not mixed equally;
\nIf our two loves be one, or, thou and I
\nLove so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.<\/p>\n

Source: Poetry Foundation- The Good-Morrow<\/a><\/p>\n