holy sonnet VII. Somebody love John Donne with me :)

[the-voices.livejournal.com]

At the round earth's imagined corners blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
All whom the flood did, and fire shall, overthrow,
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes
Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe.
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space,
For, if above all these my sins abound,
'Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace,
When we are there. Here on this lowly ground
Teach me how to repent; for that's as good
As if Thou'dst sealed my pardon, with Thy blood.

Comments

[ijon.livejournal.com]

I love John Donne. His holy sonnets are wondrous. "and to your scattered bodies go..." ahh!

[the-voices.livejournal.com]

I know.

all his poetry is just sublime. :D

[mollyringwald42.livejournal.com]

:) as a former English major, I very much appreciated that :)

[the-voices.livejournal.com]

:-) When I was doing English lit A Level, we studied John Donne's poetry - I am so extremely glad of this because otherwise I probably wouldn't have read his poetry, even less understood it. Makes me wonder what else I'm missing in the world simply because I haven't happened to stumble across it.

John Donne's poetry is one of those things that is ... essential stumbling, so to speak. ^_^

[mollyringwald42.livejournal.com]

I think so far all of the really good things in life i've stumbled upon...not that I've never had any drive to do things I wanted, but the really good things, the things I didn't expect, those just happened, or I happened to find them....the same thing happened with my new found love of ethno-musicology, or more exactly, socio-ethno-musicology....the study of society and it's effect/responce to the music of it's time....I'm such a nerd lol

[lostin.livejournal.com]

Love him.

[slysegrl.livejournal.com]

"Bait" is my personal favorite. :)