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Poems Of John Donne: Good Morrow, The

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

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Good Morrow, The

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snored we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be; If every any beauty I did see. Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

And now good - morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea - discoverers to new worlds have gone; Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have ...

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