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 "id": "john-donne/lovers-infiniteness",
 "title": "Lovers’ Infiniteness",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death",
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 "container": "Songs and Sonnets",
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  "year": 1633,
  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "If yet I have not all thy love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dear, I shall never have it all;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I cannot breathe one other sigh, to move,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor can intreat one other tear to fall;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all my treasure, which should purchase thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters I have spent;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet no more can be due to me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than at the bargain made was meant.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If then thy gift of love were partial,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That some to me, some should to others fall,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dear, I shall never have thee all.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Or if then thou gavest me all,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All was but all, which thou hadst then;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But if in thy heart since there be or shall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "New love created be by other men,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In sighs, in oaths, and letters, outbid me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This new love may beget new fears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For this love was not vow’d by thee.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And yet it was, thy gift being general;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The ground, thy heart, is mine; what ever shall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Grow there, dear, I should have it all.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Yet I would not have all yet.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He that hath all can have no more;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And since my love doth every day admit",
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   },
   {
    "text": "New growth, thou shouldst have new rewards in store;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou canst not every day give me thy heart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If thou canst give it, then thou never gavest it;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love’s riddles are, that though thy heart depart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It stays at home, and thou with losing savest it;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But we will have a way more liberal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than changing hearts, to join them; so we shall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be one, and one another’s all.",
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