John Donne
Love Poems

"Study me then, you who shall lovers be At the next world, that is, at the next spring; For I am every dead thing, In whom Love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness; He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness......more

I liked these poems. They were written a long time ago and the English is a little tricky to read but you soon get used to the old’s cool English spellings. I have to admit that the majority of the poetry I didn’t have a clue about but the lines I did understand were very moving. Here are some of my......more

Donne was such a mercurial poet that rating a collection of his work is a nonsensical idea. Some of my favourite poems ever written and some that make we want to tell him he is too clever for his own good.......more

I came into this book with only an exposure to (and love of) "No Man Is an Island" with the hopes of finding more of the same. Instead, I found a mixed bag where even the best poems did not live up to my expectations. In fact, most of these poems -despite often having an enjoyable and sometimes unex......more