John Donne1572–1631No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context- No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
- Elegies, No. 2, The Anagram, line 27
- Verse Letter to Sir Henry Wotton, written before April 1598, line 1
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
- Holy Sonnets, No. 13, line 1
- Songs and Sonnets
Hail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is;
All the air is thy diocese.An Epithalamion…on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine being Married on St. Valentine’s Day (1613)Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant,
The only harmless great thing.The Progress of the Soul (1601), stanza 39No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.Elegies, No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1- Elegies, No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33
- Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God (1633), Holy Sonnets, No. 14, line 12In context
Though Truth and Falsehood be
Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is.Satires, No. 3
