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These are Donne's celebrated love poems. While you read, notice the use of imagery:

The Good Morrow

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and

Did till we loved? were we not weaned till then,

But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?

Or snorted we in the seven sleepers’ den?

‘Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

If ever any beauty I did see,

Which I desired, and got, ‘twas but a dream of thee.

And now good morrow to our waking souls

Which watch not one another out of fear;

For love all love of other sights controls,

And makes one little room an every where.

Let sea discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let maps to others worlds on worlds have shown,

Let us possess one world each hath one and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,

And true plain hearts do in the faces rest,

Where can we find two other hemispheres

Without sharp north, without declining west?

Whatever dies was not mixed equally;

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I

Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

Post – reading activities:

- Why does the poet wonder what they did before they loved? What does this imply about the psychological timescale of love?

- Other pleasures outside their love are considered to be… Other beauty in the poet’s experience is considered to be …

- Why does the poet describe their souls as waking?

- How does love transform the room where the lovers are?

- How does Donne compare their world with other worlds? What is the significance of this?

- Why does Donne make such an extensive use of geographical and scientific imagery to describe love? How is it connected with content of the poem?

- What is Donne’s conclusion? What conditions are necessary for love to last forever? Do you agree?

The Broken Heart

He is stark mad, who ever says

That he hath been in love an hour,

Yet not that love so soon decays,

But that it can ten in less space devour;

Who will believe me, if I swear

That I have had the plague a year?

Who would not laugh at me, if I should say

I saw a flask of powder burn a day?

Ah, what a trifle is a heart,

If once into love’s hands it come!

All other griefs allow a part

To other griefs, and ask themselves but some;

They come to us, but us Love draws,

He swallows us, and never chaws:

By him, as by chained shot, whole ranks do die;

He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry.

If ‘twere not so, what did become

Of my heart, when I first saw thee?

I brought a heart into the room,

But from the room I carried none with me,

If it had gone to thee, I know

Mine would have taught thine heart to show

More pity unto me: but Love, alas,

At one first blow did shiver it as glass.

Yet nothing can to nothing fall,

Nor any place be empty quite,

Therefore I think my breast hath all

Those pieces still, though they be not unite;

And now, as broken glasses show

A hundred lesser faces, so

My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,

But after one such love, can love no more

The Triple Fool

I am two fools, I know,

For loving, and for saying so

In whining poetry;

But where’s that wiseman, that would not be I,

If she would not deny?

Then, as the earth’s inward narrow crooked lanes

Do purge sea-water’s fretful salt away,

I thought, if I could draw my pains

Through rhyme’s vexation, I should them allay.

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,

For he tames it that fetters it in verse.

But when I have done so,

Some man, his art and voice to show,

Doth set and sing my pain,

And, by delighting many, frees again

Grief, which verse did restrain.

To love and grief tribute of verse belongs.

But not of such as pleases when ‘tis read;

Both are increased by such songs.

For both their triumphs so are published,

And I, which was two fools, do so grow three:

Who are a little wise, the best fools be.

Post – reading activities:

- What is the key message of these two poems? Are they similar in presenting love?

- What love are they about? What feelings does the poet experience? Prove your viewpoint.

- Find examples of conceits. Do they provoke analysis of the ideas they express?