John Donne Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

  John Donne

  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

• Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

  John Donne

  Pleasure, Ifs

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

• From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Men, Soul

  c.1610-1615 Holy Sonnets, no.10.

• I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

  John Donne

  Love, Country, Wonder

  Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

• Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

  John Donne

  Prayer, Memories, Eye

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