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 "id": "john-donne/the-canonization",
 "title": "The Canonization",
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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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 "sequence": 10,
 "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": "For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or chide my palsy, or my gout;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My five grey hairs, or ruin’d fortune flout;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Take you a course, get you a place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Observe his Honour, or his Grace;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or the king’s real, or his stamp’d face",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Contemplate; what you will, approve,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So you will let me love.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Alas! alas! who’s injured by my love?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What merchant’s ships have my sighs drown’d?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who says my tears have overflow’d his ground?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When did my colds a forward spring remove?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When did the heats which my veins fill",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Add one more to the plaguy bill?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Litigious men, which quarrels move,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though she and I do love.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Call’s what you will, we are made such by love;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Call her one, me another fly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We’re tapers too, and at our own cost die,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And we in us find th’ eagle and the dove.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The phoenix riddle hath more wit",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By us; we two being one, are it;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We die and rise the same, and prove",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mysterious by this love.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "We can die by it, if not live by love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And if unfit for tomb or hearse",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And if no piece of chronicle we prove,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As well a well-wrought urn becomes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And by these hymns all shall approve",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Us canonized for love;",
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  [
   {
    "text": "And thus invoke us, “You, whom reverend love",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Made one another’s hermitage;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who did the whole world’s soul contract, drove",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into the glasses of your eyes;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So made such mirrors, and such spies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That they did all to you epitomize⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Countries, towns, courts beg from above",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A pattern of your love.”",
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   }
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