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1. Although thy hand and faith and good works too

First Line:
Although thy hand and faith and good works too
Last Line:
Of music joy life and eternity
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9164

2. As the sweet sweat of roses in a still

First Line:
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still
Last Line:
She and comparisons are odious
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9169

3. By our first strange and fatal interview

First Line:
By our first strange and fatal interview
Last Line:
Think it enough for me to have had thy love
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9233

4. Come madam come all rest my powers defy

First Line:
Come madam come all rest my powers defy
Last Line:
What need'st thou have more covering than a man
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9179

5. Come fates I fear you not all whom I owe

First Line:
Come fates I fear you not all whom I owe
Last Line:
But for the clearness from a lump of snow
Author:
John Donne (Speculation)
DMI number:
9174

6. Death be not proud thy hand gave not this blow

First Line:
Death be not proud thy hand gave not this blow
Last Line:
The grave no conquest gets death hath no sting
Author:
John Donne (Confident)
DMI number:
9236

7. Death I recant and say unsaid by me

First Line:
Death I recant and say unsaid by me
Last Line:
Because the chain is broke though no link lost
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9232

8. Fair soul which wast not only as all souls be

First Line:
Fair soul which wast not only as all souls be
Last Line:
Behind hand yet hath spoke and spoke her last
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9230

9. Fond woman which would'st have thy husband die

First Line:
Fond woman which would'st have thy husband die
Last Line:
Do London's mayor or Germans the Pope's pride
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9162

10. Hark news o envy thou shalt hear descried

First Line:
Hark news o envy thou shalt hear descried
Last Line:
No poison's half so bad as Julia
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9176

11. Here take my picture though I bid farewell

First Line:
Here take my picture though I bid farewell
Last Line:
To feed on that which to weak tastes seems tough
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9166

12. Look to me faith and look to my faith God

First Line:
Look to me faith and look to my faith God
Last Line:
I were an angel singing what you were
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9229

13. I sing no harm good sooth to any wight

First Line:
I sing no harm good sooth to any wight
Last Line:
But his kind wife gave me the very sign
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9177

14. Language thou art too narrow and too weak

First Line:
Language thou art too narrow and too weak
Last Line:
Of grief for all would break a stoic's heart
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9172

15. Marry and love thy Flavia for she

First Line:
Marry and love thy Flavia for she
Last Line:
For things in fashion every man will wear
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9163

16. Man is the world and death the ocean

First Line:
Man is the world and death the ocean
Last Line:
Of such a prey and to his triumph add
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9231

17. Nature's lay idiot I taught thee to love

First Line:
Nature's lay idiot I taught thee to love
Last Line:
And leave him then being made a ready horse
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9168

18. Not that in colour it was like thy hair

First Line:
Not that in colour it was like thy hair
Last Line:
Because tis cordial would twere at thy heart
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9173

19. No spring nor summer's beauty hath such grace

First Line:
No spring nor summer's beauty hath such grace
Last Line:
I shall ebb on with them who homeward go
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9170

20. Nothing could make me sooner to confess

First Line:
Nothing could make me sooner to confess
Last Line:
The trumpet at whose voice the people came
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9228

21. Oh let me not serve so as those men serve

First Line:
Oh let me not serve so as those men serve
Last Line:
What hurts it me to be excommunicate
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9167

22. Oh to what height will love of greatness drive

First Line:
Oh to what height will love of greatness drive
Last Line:
And rather than read all I would read none
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9238

23. Once and but once found in thy company

First Line:
Once and but once found in thy company
Last Line:
To embalm thy father's coarse what will he die
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9165

24. Since she must go and I must mourn come night

First Line:
Since she must go and I must mourn come night
Last Line:
As I will never look for less in you
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9175

25. Sorrow that to this house scarce knew the way

First Line:
Sorrow that to this house scarce knew the way
Last Line:
He and about him his are turned to stone
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9237

26. Thy flattering picture Phryne is like to thee

First Line:
Thy flattering picture Phryne is like to thee
Last Line:
Only in this that you both painted be
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9157

27. Tis loss to trust a tomb with such a guest

First Line:
Tis loss to trust a tomb with such a guest
Last Line:
To see how well the good play her on earth
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9226

28. Two souls move here and mine a third must move

First Line:
Two souls move here and mine a third must move
Last Line:
Which praise those awful powers that make them blest
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9227

29. Well died the world that we might live to see

First Line:
Well died the world that we might live to see
Last Line:
Till we shall sing thy ditty and thy note
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9224

30. When that rich soul which to her heaven is gone

First Line:
When that rich soul which to her heaven is gone
Last Line:
The grave keeps bodies verse the fame enrolls
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9225

31. Who ever loves if he do not propose

First Line:
Who ever loves if he do not propose
Last Line:
As who by clyster gives the stomach meat
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9178