VI

Resurrection

Moist with one drop of Thy blood, my dry soul
Shall⁠—though she now be in extreme degree
Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly⁠—be
Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard or foul,
And life by this death abled shall control
Death, whom Thy death slew; nor shall to me
Fear of first or last death bring misery,
If in Thy life-book my name thou enroll.
Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified,
But made that there, of which, and for which it was;
Nor can by other means be glorified.
May then sin’s sleep and death soon from me pass,
That waked from both, I again risen may
Salute the last and everlasting day.

Where this text comes from

First published in Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]

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Cite this poem

John Donne (1572–1631). “Resurrection.” First published in Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633). Text: Poem Index, https://poemindex.org/john-donne/resurrection/. Append #L14 to cite line 14, or #L4-L9 for lines 4–9.

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