...Nowhere Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; 20 ar. Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe...95 To some secure and more than mortal height, Th 208 209 Yet she 25 Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. 1633 THE INDIFFERENT I CAN love both...

...; Thou, when thou return 'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one,...write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. Donne. Poems, 1633. (Poem written before 1598.)* The Message SEND home my long-strayed...

...thee, Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one,...write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. THE INDIFFERENT I CAN love both fair and brown; Her whom abundance melts, and her...

...strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true and1 fair. If thou fLnd'st one, let me know; Such a pilgrimage were sweet. Yet...write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. LOVE'S DEITY I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of...

...thee, And swear Nowhere Lives a woman true, and fair. The conclusion has a characteristic turn: Tho' she were true when you met her, And last till you...write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three. The opening of these poems shock the reader into attention, sometimes by a question:...

...thee, Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair. If thou find'st one,...write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three. [a] Woman's Constancy Ar ow thou hast loved me one whole day, Tomorrow when thou...

...sometimes compacted within two monosyllables which herald the imminent change in the argument: Though shee were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet shee Will bee False, ere I come, to two, or three. ("Song: Goe, and catche," 1L 23-27) or: when thou...

...white hairs on thce; Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thcc, And swear Nowhere Lives a woman true, and fair. If...write your letter, Yet she Will be False ere I come, to two or three. THE SUN RISING Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus Through windows and through...

...MeLP; NAEL-1; NAWM-1; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBS; PoEL-2; PoRA: SeCP; SeCV-1 Go and catch a falling star 27 all the qualities o' th' isle. The fresh springs,...barren place and fertile. Cursed be I that did so! to two, or three. (1. 23-27) AWP; EBEV; E1L; ELP; FaBV; FaFP; FPL; HAP; HelP; HoPM; InPK; InPS; JCP;...

...Pilgrimage were sweet; 20 Yet doe not, I would not goe, Though at next doore wee might meet, Though shee were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet shee is Will bee False, ere I come, to two, or three. Womans Constancy Now thou hast lov'd me one whole...