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 "title": "The Damp",
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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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 "first_published": {
  "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": "When I am dead, and doctors know not why,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And my friends’ curiosity",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will have me cut up to survey each part,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When they shall find your picture in my heart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You think a sudden damp of love",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will thorough all their senses move,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And work on them as me, and so prefer",
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   {
    "text": "Your murder to the name of massacre,",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Poor victories; but if you dare be brave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And pleasure in your conquest have,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "First kill th’ enormous giant, your Disdain;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And let th’ enchantress Honour, next be slain;",
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   {
    "text": "And like a Goth or Vandal rise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Deface records and histories",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of your own arts and triumphs over men,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And without such advantage kill me then,",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "For I could muster up, as well as you,",
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   {
    "text": "My giants, and my witches too,",
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   {
    "text": "Which are vast Constancy and Secretness;",
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   {
    "text": "But these I neither look for nor profess;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Kill me as woman, let me die",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As a mere man; do you but try",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your passive valour, and you shall find then,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Naked you have odds enough of any man.",
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