Author:John Donne

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John Donne (1572–1631)

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John Donne

Works

Songs and Sonnets

• A Fever
• A Hymn to God the Father
• A Jet Ring Sent
• A Lecture Upon the Shadow
• A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window
• A Valediction: Of Weeping
• Air and Angels
• Holy Sonnet: "Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you"
• Break of Day
• Community
• Confined Love
• Holy Sonnet: "Death be not proud, though some have called thee"
• Farewell to Love
• Love's Alchemy
• Love's Diet
• Love's Deity
• Love's Exchange
• Love's Growth
• Love's Usury
• Lovers' Infiniteness
• Negative Love
• Self-Love
• Song: "Goe and catche a falling starre"
• Song: "Sweetest love, I do not go"
• The Anniversary
• The Apparition
• The Bait
• The Blossom
• The Broken Heart
• The Canonization
• The Computation
• The Curse
• The Damp
• The Dissolution
• The Dream
• The Ecstasy
• The Expiration
• The Flea
• The Funeral
• The Good-Morrow
• The Indifferent
• The Legacy
• The Message
• The Paradox
• The Primrose, Being at Montgomery Castle, Upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate
• The Prohibition
• The Relic
• The Sun Rising
• The Token
• The Triple Fool
• The Undertaking
• The Will
• Twickenham Garden
• Valediction To His Book
• Witchcraft by a Picture
• Woman's Constancy

Elegies and Heroic Epistle

Elegy I: Jealousy	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy II: The Anagram	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy III: Change	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy IV: The Perfume	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy V: His Picture	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy VI: O, let me not serve so	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy VII	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy VIII: The Comparison	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy IX: The Autumnal	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy X: The Dream	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XI: The Bracelet	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XII: His Parting from Her	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIII: Julia	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIV: A Tale of a Citizen and His Wife	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XV: The Expostulation	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVII: Variety	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XVIII: Love's Progress	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed	1633		1896	Comparative text
Elegy XX: Love's War	1633		1896	Comparative text

• Heroic Epistle. Sapho to Philænis

Epigrams

• Hero and Leader
• Pyramus and Thisbe
• Niobe
• A Burnt Ship
• Fall of a Wall
• A Lame Beggar
• Cales and Guyana
• Sir John Wingefield
• A Self Accuser
• A Licentious Person
• Antiquary
• Disinherited
• Phryne
• An Obscure Writer
• Klockius
• Raderus
• Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
• Ralphius
• The Liar

Satires

• Satire I
• Satire II
• Satire III
• Satire IV
• Satire V
• Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities
• In Eundem Macaronicon

Verse Letters to Several Personages

• The Storm
• The Calm
• To Sir Henry Wotton
• To Sir Henry Wootton
• Henrico Wottoni In Hibernia Belligeranti
• To Mr. T. W. "All hail sweet Poet"
• To Mr. T. W. "Haste thee harsh verse"
• To Mr. T. W. "Pregnant again with th'old twins Hope, and Fear"
• To Mr. T. W. "At once, from hence"
• To Mr. R. W. "Zealously my Muse"
• To Mr. R. W. "Muse not that by thy Mind"
• To Mr. C. B. "Thy friend, whom thy deserts"
• To Mr. E. G. "Even as lame things thirst"
• To Mr. R. W. "If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be"
• To Mr. R. W. "Kindly I envy thy songs perfection"
• To Mr. S. B. "O thou which to search out the secret parts"
• To Mr. I. L. "Of that short Roll of friends"
• To Mr. I. L. "Blest are your North parts"
• To Mr. B. B. "Is not thy sacred hunger of science"
• To the Countesse of Huntingdon. "That unripe side of Earth"
• To Sir H. W. At His Going Ambassador to Venice
• To Mrs. M. H. "Mad paper stay"
• To Sir Henry Goodyere
• To Mr. Roland Howard
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "Reason is our Soul's left hand"
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "You have refin'd me"
• To Sir Edwary Herbert at Julyers
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "T'have written then, when you writ"
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "This twilight of two years"
• To the Lady Bedford. "You that are she"
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "Honor is so sublime perfection"
• To the Countesse of Bedford. "Though I be dead, and buried"
• A Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche, From Amyens
• To the Countesse of Huntingdon. "Man to God's image, Eve, to man's was made"
• To the Countesse of Salisbury. "Fair, great, and good"

Marriage Songs

• Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
• Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentine's Day
• Ecclogue. 1613. December 26

Elegies and Anniverseries

• A Funeral Elegy
• To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy
• An Anatomy of the World—The First Anniversery
• The Harbinger to the Progress
• Of the Progress of the Soul—The Second Anniversery
• Elegy on the L. C. [Lord Chamberlain]
• Elegy on the Lady Markham
• Elegy on Mistress Boulstred
• Elegy. Death
• Elegy on the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry
• Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford
• An Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton

Epitaphs

• Epitaphs on Himself
• Omnibus

Divine Poems

• To E. of D. With Six Holy Sonnets
• To the Lady Magdalen Herbert: Of St. Mary Magdalen
• Holy Sonnets
• The Cross
• Resurrection, Imperfect
• Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day. 1608
• The Litany
• Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward

Sermons

• A Sermon Preached at Greenwich, Aprill 30. 1615
• Death's Duell, or A Consolation to the Soul, against the dying Life and the living Death of the Body

Essays

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

• Meditation I
• Meditation II
• Meditation III
• Meditation IV
• Meditation V
• Meditation VI
• Meditation VII
• Meditation VIII
• Meditation IX
• Meditation X
• Meditation XI
• Meditation XII
• Meditation XIII
• Meditation XIV
• Meditation XV
• Meditation XVI
• Meditation XVII
• Meditation XVIII
• Meditation XIX
• Meditation XX
• Meditation XXI
• Meditation XXII
• Meditation XXIII

Works about Donne

• “Donne, John” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Donne, John (1573-1631),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• “Donne, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• "John Donne", in Leslie Stephen's Studies of a Biographer, vol. 3

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.