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Poems Of John Donne: Lover's Infiniteness

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

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Lover's Infiniteness

If yet I have not all thy love, Dear, I shall never have it all; I cannot breathe one other sigh to move, Nor can entreat one other tear to fall; And all my treasure, which should purchase thee, Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters, I have spent; Yet no more can be due to me, Than at the bargain made was meant: If, then, thy gift of love was partial, That some to me, some should to others fall, Dear, I shall never have it all.

Or if then thou gavest me all, All was but all which thou hadst then; But if in thy heart since there be, or shall New love created ...

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