Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death

John Donne · 1633

The witness is a Google Books scan of the 1633 first edition (STC 7045; ESTC S121864), uploaded as Archive.org donnepoems. Tesseract 5.2.0 on seventeenth-century type splits words, reads long s as f, and drops headings; tools/books.py assign still placed 106 poems at threshold 0.60 from title or opening line plus body in order. Seventeen more are on the page and were placed by hand, because the scorer could not. Five of those matched partially: Song (0.59), The Apparition (0.59), The Blossom (0.57), A Self-Accuser (0.50), and An Obscure Writer (0.50). The other twelve scored below 0.25: Antiquary, The Undertaking, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, A Hymn to God the Father, The Indifferent, The Harbinger to the Progress, A Funeral Elegy, Satire I, Satire III, An Anatomy of the World (The First Anniversary), Of the Progress of the Soul (The Second Anniversary), and The Progress of the Soul (Infinitati Sacrum). In each case the heading and the verse are on the page. The threshold was not lowered. Only membership is by hand. The Anniversaries were first printed as pamphlets in 1611 and 1612. Archive.org has those items (ananatomyworldw00donngoog; bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_an-anatomie-of-the-world_donne-john_1612); their OCR layers did not yield a score at or above 0.25 for any poem. First located printing on a readable witness is this 1633 reprint. Poems this scan does not show were left for the 1635 witness. On 2026-08-21 a further 21 poems were placed here by hand. Grierson's 1912 edition (Archive.org poemsofjohndonne01donn_1) prints a contents list whose first column gives, for every poem, the earliest of the old editions that contains it and the pages it occupies there; his preface states that policy — 1633 where 1633 has the poem, otherwise the first edition that does. Each of the 21 was then looked for on this scan at the pages that list names, and each was found, heading or opening lines and body together. An order-free control over all 48 unplaced poems — the ten longest lines of each, matched anywhere in the text layer at 0.75 — found these 21 clustered on consecutive leaves and found nothing at all for the 27 Grierson assigns to a later edition or a manuscript, which is what makes the positives evidence rather than noise. What defeats books.py here is the scan: Tesseract on this type drops most headings, eats drop capitals (The Paradox opens '18) Lover faith' for 'No Lover saith') and breaks lines, so both the title anchor and the length filter in core.line_hits fail. The threshold was not lowered. Only membership is by hand; sequence stays null.

Numbers rank the poems whose position in the book is known; they are not page numbers.

  1. 1VI Holy Sonnets 1633
  2. 2VII Holy Sonnets 1633
  3. 3XI Holy Sonnets 1633
  4. 4XII Holy Sonnets 1633
  5. 5XIV Holy Sonnets 1633
  6. 6XV Holy Sonnets 1633
  7. 7The Apparition Songs and Sonnets 1633
  8. 8The Broken Heart Songs and Sonnets 1633
  9. 9Song Songs and Sonnets 1633
  10. 10The Canonization Songs and Sonnets 1633
  11. 11The Flea Songs and Sonnets 1633
  12. 12The Will Songs and Sonnets 1633
  13. 13Negative Love Songs and Sonnets 1633
  14. ·A Burnt Ship Epigrams 1633
  15. ·A Fever Songs and Sonnets 1633
  16. ·A Funeral Elegy An Anatomy of the World 1633
  17. ·A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last Going Into Germany Divine Poems 1633
  18. ·A Hymn to God the Father Divine Poems 1633
  19. ·A Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquis Hamilton Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Death of Sundry Personages 1633
  20. ·A Jet Ring Sent Songs and Sonnets 1633
  21. ·A Lame Beggar Epigrams 1633
  22. ·A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mistress Essex Rich, from Amiens Letters to Several Personages 1633
  23. ·A Licentious Person Epigrams 1633
  24. ·A Litany Divine Poems 1633
  25. ·A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day Songs and Sonnets 1633
  26. ·A Self-Accuser Epigrams 1633
  27. ·A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Songs and Sonnets 1633
  28. ·A Valediction of My Name, in the Window Songs and Sonnets 1633
  29. ·A Valediction of Weeping Songs and Sonnets 1633
  30. ·Air and Angels Songs and Sonnets 1633
  31. ·An Anatomy of the World An Anatomy of the World 1633
  32. ·An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentine’s Day Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs 1633
  33. ·An Obscure Writer Epigrams 1633
  34. ·Annunciation Divine Poems 1633
  35. ·Antiquary Epigrams 1633
  36. ·Ascension Divine Poems 1633
  37. ·Break of Day Songs and Sonnets 1633
  38. ·Change Elegies 1633
  39. ·Community Songs and Sonnets 1633
  40. ·Confined Love Songs and Sonnets 1633
  41. ·Crucifying Divine Poems 1633
  42. ·Disinherited Epigrams 1633
  43. ·Elegy Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Death of Sundry Personages 1633
  44. ·Elegy on Mistress Boulstred Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Death of Sundry Personages 1633
  45. ·Elegy on the Lady Markham Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Death of Sundry Personages 1633
  46. ·Elegy on the Lord Chancellor Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Death of Sundry Personages 1633
  47. ·Elegy Upon the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Death of Sundry Personages 1633
  48. ·Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs 1633
  49. ·Fall of a Wall Epigrams 1633
  50. ·Good-Friday, 1613, Riding Westward Divine Poems 1633
  51. ·Hero and Leander Epigrams 1633
  52. ·Heroical Epistle Elegies 1633
  53. ·His Picture Elegies 1633
  54. ·II Holy Sonnets 1633
  55. ·IV Holy Sonnets 1633
  56. ·IX Holy Sonnets 1633
  57. ·Jealousy Elegies 1633
  58. ·Klockius Epigrams 1633
  59. ·La Corona Divine Poems 1633
  60. ·Love’s Alchemy Songs and Sonnets 1633
  61. ·Love’s Deity Songs and Sonnets 1633
  62. ·Love’s Diet Songs and Sonnets 1633
  63. ·Love’s Exchange Songs and Sonnets 1633
  64. ·Love’s Growth Songs and Sonnets 1633
  65. ·Love’s Usury Songs and Sonnets 1633
  66. ·Lovers’ Infiniteness Songs and Sonnets 1633
  67. ·Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus Epigrams 1633
  68. ·Nativity Divine Poems 1633
  69. ·Niobe Epigrams 1633
  70. ·O, Let Me Not Serve So, as Those Men Serve Elegies 1633
  71. ·Obsequies of the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford Epicedes and Obsequies Upon the Death of Sundry Personages 1633
  72. ·Of the Progress of the Soul An Anatomy of the World 1633
  73. ·Phryne Epigrams 1633
  74. ·Pyramus and Thisbe Epigrams 1633
  75. ·Raderus Epigrams 1633
  76. ·Ralphius Epigrams 1633
  77. ·Resurrection Divine Poems 1633
  78. ·Satire I Satires 1633
  79. ·Satire II Satires 1633
  80. ·Satire III Satires 1633
  81. ·Satire IV Satires 1633
  82. ·Satire V Satires 1633
  83. ·Song Songs and Sonnets 1633
  84. ·Temple Divine Poems 1633
  85. ·The Anagram Elegies 1633
  86. ·The Anniversary Songs and Sonnets 1633
  87. ·The Bait Songs and Sonnets 1633
  88. ·The Blossom Songs and Sonnets 1633
  89. ·The Calm Letters to Several Personages 1633
  90. ·The Comparison Elegies 1633
  91. ·The Computation Songs and Sonnets 1633
  92. ·The Cross Divine Poems 1633
  93. ·The Damp Songs and Sonnets 1633
  94. ·The Dissolution Songs and Sonnets 1633
  95. ·The Dream Elegies 1633
  96. ·The Dream Songs and Sonnets 1633
  97. ·The Ecstacy Songs and Sonnets 1633
  98. ·The Expiration Songs and Sonnets 1633
  99. ·The Expostulation Elegies 1633
  100. ·The Funeral Songs and Sonnets 1633
  101. ·The Good-Morrow Songs and Sonnets 1633
  102. ·The Harbinger to the Progress An Anatomy of the World 1633
  103. ·The Indifferent Songs and Sonnets 1633
  104. ·The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the Most Part According to Tremellius Divine Poems 1633
  105. ·The Legacy Songs and Sonnets 1633
  106. ·The Message Songs and Sonnets 1633
  107. ·The Paradox Songs and Sonnets 1633
  108. ·The Perfume Elegies 1633
  109. ·The Primrose, Being at Montgomery Castle Upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate Songs and Sonnets 1633
  110. ·The Progress of the Soul Infinitati Sacrum Metempsychosis 1633
  111. ·The Prohibition Songs and Sonnets 1633
  112. ·The Relic Songs and Sonnets 1633
  113. ·The Storm Letters to Several Personages 1633
  114. ·The Sun Rising Songs and Sonnets 1633
  115. ·The Triple Fool Songs and Sonnets 1633
  116. ·The Undertaking Songs and Sonnets 1633
  117. ·To Mr. Basil Brooke Letters to Several Personages 1633
  118. ·To Mr. Christopher Brooke Letters to Several Personages 1633
  119. ·To Mr. I. L. Letters to Several Personages 1633
  120. ·To Mr. Rowland Woodward Letters to Several Personages 1633
  121. ·To Mr. Rowland Woodward Letters to Several Personages 1633
  122. ·To Mr. Samuel Brooke Letters to Several Personages 1633
  123. ·To Mr. Thomas Woodward Letters to Several Personages 1633
  124. ·To Mr. Thomas Woodward Letters to Several Personages 1633
  125. ·To Mr. Thomas Woodward Letters to Several Personages 1633
  126. ·To Mr. Thomas Woodward Letters to Several Personages 1633
  127. ·To Mrs. Magdalen Herbert Letters to Several Personages 1633
  128. ·To Sir Edward Herbert, Now Lord Herbert Cherbury, Being at the Siege of Juliers Letters to Several Personages 1633
  129. ·To Sir Henry Goodyere Letters to Several Personages 1633
  130. ·To Sir Henry Wotton Letters to Several Personages 1633
  131. ·To Sir Henry Wotton Letters to Several Personages 1633
  132. ·To the Countess of Bedford Letters to Several Personages 1633
  133. ·To the Countess of Bedford Letters to Several Personages 1633
  134. ·To the Countess of Bedford, on New Year’s Day Letters to Several Personages 1633
  135. ·To the Countess of Huntingdon Letters to Several Personages 1633
  136. ·To the Countess of Salisbury, August 1614 Letters to Several Personages 1633
  137. ·To the Lady Bedford Letters to Several Personages 1633
  138. ·To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy An Anatomy of the World 1633
  139. ·Twickenham Garden Songs and Sonnets 1633
  140. ·Witchcraft by a Picture Songs and Sonnets 1633
  141. ·Woman’s Constancy Songs and Sonnets 1633
  142. ·X Holy Sonnets 1633
  143. ·XIII Holy Sonnets 1633
  144. ·XVI Holy Sonnets 1633