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Holy Sonnets

Holy Sonnets

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Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 23 minutes

Language: English

John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable for their realistic and sensual style, include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and immediacy of metaphor, compared with that of his contemporaries. Towards the end of his life Donne wrote works that challenged death, and the fear that it inspired in many men, on the grounds of his belief that those who die are sent to Heaven to live eternally. One example of this challenge is his Holy Sonnet X, from which come the famous lines “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.” (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Holy Sonnet I – Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay? (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet II – As due by many titles I resign my self to Thee… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet III – O might those sighs and tears return again… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet IV – Oh my black soul! now art thou summoned… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet V – I am a little world made cunningly… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet VI – This is my play’s last scene… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet VII – At the round earth’s imagin’d corners… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet VIII – If faithful angels be alike glorified… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet IX – If poisonous minerals… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet X – Death, be not proud… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XI – Spit in my face you Jews… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XII – Why are we by all creatures waited on? (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XIII – What if this present were the world’s last night? (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XIV – Batter my heart, three-personed God… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XV – Wilt thou love God, as he thee? (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XVI – Father, part of his double interest… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XVII – Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XVIII – Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear… (David Barnes)
Holy Sonnet XIX – Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one… (David Barnes)
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