Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death
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- Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death
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- Donne, John, 1572-1631.
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- London :: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street,
- 1633.
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OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.
Wherein, By occasion of the Religious death of Mistris ELIZABETH DRVRY, the incommodities of the Soule in this life, and her exaltation in the next, are contemplated.
The second Anniversary.
The Harbinger to the PROGRESSE.
TWo Soules move here, and mine (a third) must move Paces of admiration, and of love; Thy Soule (deare virgin) whose this tribute is, Mov'd from this mortall Spheare to lively blisse;Page 258
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OF THE PROGRESSE OF THE SOULE.
The second Anniversarie.
NOthing could make me sooner to confesse That this world had an everlastingnesse, Then to consider, that a yeare is runne, Since both this lower world's, and the Sunnes Sunne, The Lustre, and the vigor of this all, Did set; 'twere blasphemie to say, did fall. But as a ship which hath strooke saile, doth runne By force of that force which before, it wonne: Or as sometimes in a beheaded man, Though at those two Red seas, which freely ranne, One from the Trunke, another from the Head, His soule he sail'd, to her eternall bed, His eyes will twinckle, and his tongue will roll, As though he beckned, and cal'd backe his soule, He graspes his hands, and he pulls up his feet, And seemes to reach, and to step forth to meet His soule; when all these motions which we saw, Are but as Ice, which crackles at a thaw:Page 261
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Notes
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* 1.1
A iust dise∣stimation of this world.
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Contempla∣tion of our state in our death∣bed.
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Her liberty by death.
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Of our com∣pany in this life, and in the next.
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Of essentiall joy in this life and in the next.
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Of acciden∣tall joyes in both places.
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Conclusion.