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

John Donne · 1635

The witness is an Early English Books microfilm of the 1635 Poems (the second collected edition), Archive.org bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_poems-_donne-john-poems-by-j_1635. Assign ran after 1633, so it considered only poems still loose. Some of the 21 were in 1633; that scan did not show them, and first located printing on a readable witness is this edition. Seven more scored 0.25-0.60 and were left unplaced: the OCR here does not show those poems clearly enough to hand-place. The threshold was not lowered. On 2026-08-21 a further 7 poems were placed here by hand, on the same evidence as the 21 added to the 1633 record that day: Grierson's 1912 contents gives 1635 as the earliest edition containing each, and this scan shows each at the page it names. They are Farewell to love (63-4), Hymne to God my God in my sicknesse (387-8), the Ode of our Sense of Sinne (368), Omnibus (386-7), Upon the translation of the Psalmes (366-8), Holy Sonnet V (334) and the Epitaph on himselfe (271). This microfilm's OCR is much worse than the 1633 scan's — three of the seven scored 1 or 4 of 10 sampled lines — so each was read off the page image's text layer leaf by leaf rather than trusted to a score. The Epitaph on himselfe and Omnibus are the two states of one epitaph that 1635 prints in two places, which is why both are here.