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Poems Of John Donne: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Donne, John

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Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go

Sweetest love, I do not go For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best Thus to use myself in jest, By feigned death to die.

Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here to - day; He hath no desire nor sense, Nor half so short a way. Then fear not me, But believe that I shall make Hastier journeys, since I take More wings and spurs than he.

O how feeble is man's power, That, if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall. But come bad chance, And we ...

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