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 "title": "Twickenham Garden",
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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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  "year": 1633,
  "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hither I come to seek the spring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And at mine eyes, and at mine ears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Receive such balms as else cure everything.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But O! self-traitor, I do bring",
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   {
    "text": "The spider Love, which transubstantiates all,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And can convert manna to gall;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And that this place may thoroughly be thought",
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   },
   {
    "text": "True paradise, I have the serpent brought.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "’Twere wholesomer for me that winter did",
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   {
    "text": "Benight the glory of this place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And that a grave frost did forbid",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These trees to laugh and mock me to my face;",
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   {
    "text": "But that I may not this disgrace",
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   {
    "text": "Endure, nor yet leave loving, Love, let me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some senseless piece of this place be;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Make me a mandrake, so I may grow here,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or a stone fountain weeping out my year.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Hither with crystal phials, lovers, come,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And take my tears, which are love’s wine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And try your mistress’ tears at home,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For all are false, that taste not just like mine.",
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   {
    "text": "Alas! hearts do not in eyes shine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor can you more judge women’s thoughts by tears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than by her shadow what she wears.",
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   {
    "text": "O perverse sex, where none is true but she,",
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   {
    "text": "Who’s therefore true, because her truth kills me.",
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