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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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  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Sweetest love, I do not go,",
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   {
    "text": "For weariness of thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor in hope the world can show",
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   {
    "text": "A fitter love for me;",
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   {
    "text": "But since that I",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At the last must part, ’tis best,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thus to use myself in jest",
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   {
    "text": "By feigned deaths to die.",
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   {
    "text": "Yesternight the sun went hence,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And yet is here today;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He hath no desire nor sense,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor half so short a way;",
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   {
    "text": "Then fear not me,",
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   {
    "text": "But believe that I shall make",
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   {
    "text": "Speedier journeys, since I take",
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   {
    "text": "More wings and spurs than he.",
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    "text": "O how feeble is man’s power,",
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   {
    "text": "That if good fortune fall,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Cannot add another hour,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor a lost hour recall;",
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   {
    "text": "But come bad chance,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And we join to it our strength,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And we teach it art and length,",
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   {
    "text": "Itself o’er us to advance.",
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   {
    "text": "When thou sigh’st, thou sigh’st not wind,",
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   {
    "text": "But sigh’st my soul away;",
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   {
    "text": "When thou weep’st, unkindly kind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My life’s blood doth decay.",
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   {
    "text": "It cannot be",
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   {
    "text": "That thou lovest me as thou say’st,",
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   {
    "text": "If in thine my life thou waste,",
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   {
    "text": "That art the best of me.",
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    "text": "Let not thy divining heart",
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   {
    "text": "Forethink me any ill;",
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   {
    "text": "Destiny may take thy part,",
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   {
    "text": "And may thy fears fulfil.",
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   {
    "text": "But think that we",
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   {
    "text": "Are but turn’d aside to sleep.",
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   {
    "text": "They who one another keep",
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   {
    "text": "Alive, ne’er parted be.",
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