John Donne

Prose

• Devotions upon Emergent Occasions XVII: Meditation. Some of Donne's most famous lines: No man is an Island; . . . therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
• Eighty Sermons 27: Preached to the Lords upon Easter-Day, at the Communion, March 28, 1619
• Six Sermons 4: Preached to the Nobility
• Twenty-Six Sermons 25: Preached at the Spital, April 22, 1622

Divine Poems

• Holy Sonnets VII: At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow
• Holy Sonnets X: Death be not proud, though some have called thee
• Holy Sonnets XIV: Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you
• A Hymne to God the Father: Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne,
• The Litanie I-IV: Father of Heaven, and him, by whom

Other poetry

• Seek True Religion! (from Satire III)

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