{"id":42,"date":"2024-09-24T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2024-09-24T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T17:42:21","slug":"the-flea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/annotated-poems\/the-flea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By : John Donne<\/p>\n<p>Source : The Poetry Foundation<\/p>\n<article class=\"mb-6 grid gap-12 md:mb-0\">\n<div class=\"relative\" data-v-1a293654=\"\">\n<div class=\"annotations-active\" data-v-1a293654=\"\">\n<div class=\"rich-text copy-large\" data-v-1a293654=\"\" data-v-5d42741a=\"\">\n<div class=\"poem-body\" data-v-5d42741a=\"\">\n<div>Mark but this flea, and mark in this,<\/div>\n<div>How little that which thou deniest me is;<\/div>\n<div>It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,<\/div>\n<div>And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;<\/div>\n<div>Thou know\u2019st that this cannot be said<\/div>\n<div>A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yet this enjoys before it woo,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And pampered swells with one blood made of two,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And this, alas, is more than we would do.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div>Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,<\/div>\n<div>Where we almost, nay more than married are.<\/div>\n<div>This flea is you and I, and this<\/div>\n<div>Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;<\/div>\n<div>Though parents grudge, and you, w&#8217;are met,<\/div>\n<div>And cloistered in these living walls of jet.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Though use make you apt to kill me,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let not to that, self-murder added be,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.<\/div>\n<div>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div>Cruel and sudden, hast thou since<\/div>\n<div>Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?<\/div>\n<div>Wherein could this flea guilty be,<\/div>\n<div>Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?<\/div>\n<div>Yet thou triumph\u2019st, and say&#8217;st that thou<\/div>\n<div>Find\u2019st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2019Tis true; then learn how false, fears be:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just so much honor, when thou yield\u2019st to me,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will waste, as this flea\u2019s death took life from thee.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By : John Donne Source : The Poetry Foundation 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/annotated-poems\/the-flea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Flea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5509,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}