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 "id": "john-donne/witchcraft-by-a-picture",
 "title": "Witchcraft by a Picture",
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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)",
  "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": "I fix mine eye on thine, and there",
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   {
    "text": "Pity my picture burning in thine eye;",
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   {
    "text": "My picture drown’d in a transparent tear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When I look lower I espy;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hadst thou the wicked skill",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By pictures made and marr’d, to kill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How many ways mightst thou perform thy will?",
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   }
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  [
   {
    "text": "But now I’ve drunk thy sweet salt tears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And though thou pour more, I’ll depart;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My picture vanished, vanish all fears",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That I can be endamaged by that art;",
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   {
    "text": "Though thou retain of me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One picture more, yet that will be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Being in thine own heart, from all malice free.",
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