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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 (1650)",
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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": "Send me some tokens, that my hope may live",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Send me some honey, to make sweet my hive,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That in my passions I may hope the best.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I beg nor ribbon wrought with thine own hands,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To knit our loves in the fantastic strain",
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   {
    "text": "Of new-touch’d youth; nor ring to show the stands",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of our affection, that, as that’s round and plain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So should our loves meet in simplicity;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No, nor the corals, which thy wrist enfold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Laced up together in congruity,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To show our thoughts should rest in the same hold;",
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   {
    "text": "No, nor thy picture, though most gracious,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And most desired, ’cause ’tis like the best",
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   {
    "text": "Nor witty lines, which are most copious,",
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   {
    "text": "Within the writings which thou hast address’d.",
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   {
    "text": "Send me nor this nor that, to increase my score,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But swear thou think’st I love thee, and no more.",
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