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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems,
elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions] |
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| Elegie. XVII. |
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| To make the doubt clear, that no woman's true, |
| Was it my fate to prove it strong in you? |
| Thought I, but one had breathed purest air, |
| And must she needs be false, because she's fair? |
| Is it your beauties mark, or of your youth, |
| Or your perfection not to study truth? |
| Or think you heaven is deaf, or hath no eyes, |
| Or those it hath, smile at your perjuries?
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[CW: Are] |