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John Donne (1572–1631). The Poems of John Donne. 1896.

To John Donne

DONNE, the delight of Phœbus, and each Muse,

Who, to thy one, all other brains refuse;

Whose every work, of thy most early wit,

Came forth example, and remains so, yet;

Longer a knowing, than most wits do live;

And which no’n affection praise enough can give!

To it, thy language, letters, arts, lest life,

Which might with half mankind maintain a strife;

All which I mean to praise, and yet, I would;

But leave, because I cannot as I should.