DigitalDonne: the Online Variorum
First-Line Index to the 1650 Edition of Poems, by J.D.
Donne Variorum siglum E
In left-to-right order, each item listed below is identified by (a) Donne Variorum short form (noncan = noncanonical), (b) heading plus first line, and (c) its location in the artifact (by folio or page nos.).
To the Right Honourable William, Lord Craven A3-A4 Hexastichon Bibliopolae ["I seen in his last"] A4v Hexastichon ad Bibliopelam. / Incerti ["In thy Impression of Donne"] A4v noncan To John Donne ["Donne, the delight of Phoebus"] A4v SONGS AND SONETS. Flea The Flea ["Mark but this flea"] 001-2 GoodM The Good Morrow ["I wonder by my troth"] 002-3 SGo Song ["Go, and catch a falling star"] 003-4 WomCon Woman's Constancy ["Now thou has loved me one whole day"] 004 Under The Undertaking ["I have done one braver thing"] 004-5 SunRis The Sun Rising ["Busie old fool, unruly sun"] 006-7 Ind The Indifferent ["I can love both fair and brown"] 007-8 LovUsury Love's Usury ["For every hour that thou wilt spare me"] 008-9 Canon The Canonization ["For God's sake hold your tongue"] 009-10 Triple The Triple Fool ["I am two fools, I know"] 010-11 LovInf Lovers' Infiniteness ["If yet I have not all thy love"] 011-12 SSweet Song ["Sweetest love, I do not go"] 012-14 Leg The Legacy ["When I died last"] 014-15 Feaver A Feaver ["Oh do not die"] 015-16 Air Air and Angels ["Twice or thrice had I loved"] 016-17 Break Break of Day ["'Tis true, 'tis day"] 017-18 Anniv The Anniversary ["All kings and all their favorites"] 018-19 ValName A Valediction of my Name in the Window ["My name engraved herein"] 019-22 Twick Twickenham garden ["Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears"] 022-23 ValBook A Valediction of the Book ["I'll tell thee now"] 023-25 Commun Community ["Good we must love"] 025-26 LovGrow Love's Growth ["I scarce believe my love to be so pure"] 026-27 LovExch Love's Exchange ["Love, any devil else but you"] 027-29 ConfL Confined Love ["Some man unworthy"] 029-30 Dream The Dream ["Dear love, for nothing less"] 030-31 ValWeep A Valediction of Weeping ["Let me pour forth"] 031-32 LovAlch Love's Alchemy ["Some that have deeper digged"] 032-33 Curse The Curse ["Whoever guesses, thinks, or dreams"] 033-34 Mess The Message ["Send home my long strayed eyes"] 034-35 Noct A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day ["'Tis the year's midnight"] 035-37 Witch Witchcraft by a Picture ["I fix mine eye on thine"] 037 Bait The Bait ["Come live with me"] 037-38 Appar The Apparition ["When by thy scorn"] 039 Broken The Broken Heart ["He is stark mad"] 039-40 ValMourn A Valediction Forbidding Mourning ["As virtuous men pass mildly away"] 041-42 Ecst The Ecstasy ["Where, like a pillow on a bed"] 042-44 LovDeity Love's Deity ["I long to talk with some old"] 045-46 LovDiet Love's Diet ["To what a cumbersome unwieldiness"] 046-47 Will The Will ["Before I sigh my last gasp"] 047-49 Fun The Funeral ["Whoever comes to shroud me"] 049-50 Blos The Blossom ["Little thinkest thou"] 050-51 Prim The Primrose ["Upon this primrose hill"] 051-52 Relic The Relic ["When my grave is broke up again"] 052-53 Damp The Damp ["When I am dead"] 054 Dissol The Dissolution ["She is dead"] 055 Jet A Jet Ring Sent ["Thou art not so black"] 055-56 NegLov Negative Love ["I never stooped so low"] 056-57 Prohib The Prohibition ["Take heed of loving me"] 057-58 Expir The Expiration ["So, so, break off"] 058 Compu The Computation ["For the first twenty years"] 058 Para The Paradox ["No lover saith, I love"] 059 noncan Song ["Soules joy, now I am gone"] 059-60 Fare Farewell to Love ["Whilst yet to prove"] 060-62 noncan Song ["Deare Love continue nice and chaste"] 062-63 Lect A Lecture upon the Shadow ["Stand still and I will read"] 063-64 EPIGRAMS Hero Hero and Leander ["Both robbed of air"] 065 Pyr Pyramus and Thisbe ["Two by themselves each other"] 065 Niobe Niobe ["By children's birth and death"] 065 Ship A Burnt Ship ["Out of a fired ship"] 065 Wall Fall of a Wall ["Under an undermined and shot-bruised wall"] 066 Beggar A Lame Beggar ["I am unable, yonder beggar cries"] 066 SelfAc A Self Accuser ["Your mistress, that you follow whores"] 066 Licent A Licentious Person ["Thy sins and hairs"] 066 Antiq Antiquary ["If in his study"] 066 Disinher Disinherited ["Thy father all from thee"] 066 Phrine Phrine ["Thy flattering picture, Phrine"] 067 Philo An Obscure Writer ["Philo with twelve years' study"] 067 Klock Klockius ["Klockius so deeply hath sworn"] 067 Martial Raderus ["Why this man gelded Martial"] 067 Merc Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ["Like Aesop's fellow slaves"] 067 Ralph Ralphius ["Compassion in the world again is bred"] 067 ELEGIES ElJeal Jealosy ["Fond woman which would'st have thy husband die"] 068-69 ElAnag The Anagram ["Marry and love thy Flavia"] 069-71 ElChange Change ["Although thy hand and faith"] 071-72 ElPerf The Perfume ["Once and but once found in thy company"] 072-74 ElPict His Picture ["Here take my picture"] 075 ElServe "Oh, let me not serve so" 075-77 ElNat "Nature's lay idiot" 077-78 ElComp The Comparison ["As the sweet sweat of roses in a still"] 078-80 ElAut The Autumnal ["No spring nor summer beauty"] 080-82 Image "Image of her whom I love" 082-83 BoulNar Elegy upon the Death of Mrs. Boulstred ["Language thou art too narrow"] 083-85 ElBrac The Bracelet ["Not that in color it was like thy hair"] 085-88 noncan ELEG. XIII. ["Come, Fates; I feare you not. All whom I owe"] 089-90 ElPart His Parting From Her ["Since she must go"] 091-92 Julia ELEG.XV. / Julia. ["Harke newes, o envy"] 092-93 Citizen ELEG.XVI. / A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife. 093-96 ElExpost The Expostulation ["To make the doubt clear"] 096-98 EPITHALAMIONS, / OR, / MARRIAGE SONGS. EpEliz An Epithalamion . . . on the Lady Elizabeth ["Hail, Bishop Valentine"] 099-103 Eclog Eclogue at the Marriage of the Earl of Sommerset ["Unseasonable man, statue of ice"] 104-14 EpLin Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn ["The sunbeams in the east"] 114-17 SATYRES. Sat1 "Away thou fondling motley humorist" 118-21 Sat2 "Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate" 121-25 Sat3 "Kind pity chokes my spleen" 125-28 Sat4 "Well, I may now receive and die" 129-36 Sat5 "Thou shalt not laugh in this leaf, Muse" 136-39 noncan Satyre VI. ["Men write that love and reason disagree"] 139-41 LETTERS / TO SEVERALL / PERSONAGES. Storm The Storm ["Thou which art I"] 141-43 Calm The Calm ["Our storm is past"] 144-45 HWKiss To Sir Henry Wotton ["Sir, more then kisses"] 146-48 HG To Sr. Henry Goodyere ["Who makes the past a pattern"] 148-50 RWThird To Mr. R. W. ["Like one who in her third widdowhood"] 150-51 HWNews To Sir Henry Wotton ["Here's no more news"] 151-52 BedfReas To the Countess of Bedford ["Reason is our soul's left hand"] 153-54 BedfRef To the Countess of Bedford ["You have refined me"] 154-57 EdHerb To Sir Edward Herbert ["Man is a lump"] 157-58 BedfWrit To the Countess of Bedford ["To have written then"] 159-61 BedfTwi To the Countess of Bedford: On New-Year's Day ["This twilight of two years"] 162-64 HuntMan To the Countess of Huntingdon ["Man to God's image"] 164-67 TWHail To Mr. T. W. ["All hail sweet poet"] 167-68 TWHarsh To Mr. T. W. ["Haste thee harsh verse"] 168 TWPreg To Mr. T. W. ["Pregnant again"] 169 TWHence To Mr. T. W. ["At once from hence"] 169-70 CB To Mr. C. B. ["Thy friend whom thy deserts"] 170 SB To Mr. S. B. ["O thou which to search"] 170-71 BB To Mr. B.B. ["Is not thy sacred hunger"] 171-72 RWSlumb To Mr. R. W. ["If as mine is thy life a slumber be"] 172-73 ILRoll To Mr. I.L. ["Of that short roll"] 173-74 ILBlest To Mr. I.L. ["Blest are your north parts"] 174 ED To E. of D. with Six Holy Sonnets ["See, Sir, how as the sun's"] 174-75 HWVenice To Sir H. W. at his Going Ambassador to Venice ["After those reverend papers"] 175-76 MHPaper To Mrs. M. H. ["Mad paper stay"] 177-79 BedfHon To the Countess of Bedford ["Honor is so sublime"] 179-81 HuntUn To the Countess of Huntington ["That unripe side of earth"] 181-85 noncan A dialogue between Sr. Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne ["If her distaine least change"] 185-86 BedfDead To the Countess of Bedford. Begun in France ["Though I be dead and buried"] 187 Carey A Letter to the Lady Carey, & Mrs. Essex Rich ["Here where by all"] 188-90 Sal To the Countess of Salisbury, August. 1614. ["Faire, great, and good"] 190-93 BedfShe To the Lady Bedford ["You that are she"] 193-94 Sappho Sapho to Philanis ["Where is that holy fire"] 195-97 noncan To Ben Johnson, 6 Jan. 1603 ["The State and mens affaires"] 197-98 noncan To Ben Johnson, 9. Novembrie,1603 ["If great men wrong me"] 198-99 noncan To Sir Tho. Rowe. 1603. ["Tell her if she to hired sevants"] 199-200 Praise To the Praise of the Dead and the Anatomy (by Joseph Hall) ["Well died the world"] 200-02 FirAn The First Anniversary. An Anatomy of the World ["When that rich soul"] 202-17 FunEl A Funeral Elegy ["Tis lost to trust a tomb"] 217-20 Harb The Harbinger to the Progress (by Joseph Hall) 221-22 SecAn The Second Anniversary. Of the Progress of the Soul 223-39 EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES / Upon The deaths of sundry Personages Henry Elegy on the untimely Death of . . . Prince Henry ["Look to me, Faith"] 240-43 [blank sheet inserted between 240 and 241] Har (ltr) To the Countess of Bedford ["I have learned"] 243-44 Har Obsequies to the Lord Harrington ["Fair soul, which wast not only"] 244-52 Mark Elegy on the Lady Markham ["Man is the world"] 252-54 BoulRec Elegy on Mistris Boulstred ["Death, I recant"] 254-57 ElFatal Elegy on His Mistress ["By our first strange and fatal interview"] 257-58 BedfCab Elegie ["That I might make your cabinet"] 259 noncan Elegy on Mistris Boulstred ["Death be not proud, thy hand"] 259-61 Sorrow Elegia ["Sorrow, who to this house"] 261-62 Coryat Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat's Crudities ["Oh to what height"] 262-64 [end of Funerall Elegies] Token Sonnet. The Token ["Send me some token"] 264-65 LETTERS [prose except Libro] HEN. GOODEERE ["Etiam vulgari lingua"] 265-67 Libro De Libro Cum Mutuaretur ["Doctissimo Amicissimoque v. D. D. Andrews"] 268 To Sir H.G. ["I send not"] 269-71 To Sir H.G. ["Sir, / Nature hath made"] 271-73 To the La.G. ["MADAME, / I am not come"] 273-74 To my honour'd friend G.G. Esquier. ["SIR. / Neither your letters"] 274-76 To my honour'd friend G.G. Esquier. ["SIR, / I should not onely"] 276-77 To my honour'd friend G.G. Esquier. ["SIR, / This advantage you"] 277-78 To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / This Tuesday morning"] 278-81 To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / In the history or stile"] 281-82 To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / It should bee no"] 282-84 To the Countesses of Bedford. ["Happiest and worthiest Lady"] 285 To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / Because I am in a place"] 286-87 To Sir H.G. ["SIR, / I hope you are now well"] 287-89
Metem INFINITATI SACRVM / 16 August 1601 / METEMPSYSOSIS
Metem (ltr) ["Others at the Porches"] U(V)1v-V2v
THE / PROGRESS/ OF THE SOVLE. ["I sing the progress"] 293(unpaged)-313
[blank sheet between 304 and 305
HOLY SONNETS. [page header is Divine Poems]
Cor1 La Corona ["Deign at my hands"] 313
Cor2 Annunciation ["Salvation to all that will is nigh"] 313-14
Cor3 Nativity ["Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb"] 314
Cor4 Temple ["With his kind mother who partakes thy woe"] 314-15
Cor5 Crucifying ["By miracles exceeding power of man"] 315
Cor6 Resurrection ["Moist with one drop of thy blood"] 315-16
Cor7 Ascension ["Salute the last and everlasting day"] 316
[Holy Sonnets.]
HSMade "Thou hast made me" 316-17
HSDue "As due by many titles" 317
HSSighs "O might those sighs" 317-18
HSBlack "O my black soul" 318
HSLittle "I am a little world" 318-19
HSScene "This is my play's last scene" 319
HSRound "At the round earth's imagined corners" 319-20
HSSouls "If faithful souls" 320
HSMin "If poisonous minerals" 320-21
HSDeath "Death be not proud" 321
HSSpit "Spit in my face" 321-22
HSWhy "Why are we by all creatures" 322
HSWhat "What if this present" 322-23
HSBatter "Batter my heart" 323
HSWilt "Wilt thou love God" 323-24
HSPart "Father part of his double interest" 324
noncan On the blessed Virgin Mary. ["In that, O Queene of Queenes"] 324-25
Cross The Cross ["Since Christ embraced"] 325-27
noncan Davison's Psalm 137 ["By Euphrates flowry side"] 327-30
Res Resurrection imperfect ["Sleep, sleep, old sun"] 330-31
Ham (ltr) To Sir Robert Carr ["I presume you rather trie"] 331
Ham An Hymn to the Saints and to the Marquis Hamilton
["Whether that soul which now comes"] 331-33
Annun Upon the Annunciation and Passion ["Tamely frail body"] 333-34
Goodf Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ["Let man's soul be a sphere"] 334-36
Lit A Litany ["Father of heaven and him"] 336-46
Sidney Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney
["Eternal God, (for whom who ever dare...)"] 346-48
noncan Ode ["Vengeance will sit above our faults"] 348-49
Tilman To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders
["Thou whose diviner soul"] 349-50
Christ A Hymn to Christ at the Author's Last Going into Germany
["In what torn ship soever"] 350
noncan On the Sacrament ["He was the Word that spake it"] 352
Lam The Lamentations of Jeremy ["How sits this city"] 352-66
BedfCab On Himself ["My Fortune and my choice this custome break"] 366-67
Sickness A Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness ["Since I am coming"] 367-68
Father A Hymn to God the Father "[Wilt thou forgive"] 368
[end of Divine Poems]
noncan Newes from the very Countrey ["That it is a Frippery"] 369-70
Amic Amicissimo et Meritissimo Ben Jonson ["Quod arte ausus es hic tua"] 370-71
noncan "AEvum sortiti sumus quo plane indoctis nihil turplus" 371-72
noncan Catalogus Librorum ["1. Nicolai Hill Angli, de sexu"] 372-75
noncan In Sacram Anchoram Piscatoris / G. Herbert ["Qvod Crux nequibat fixa"] 376-77
GHerb To Mr. George Herbert With One of My Seals
["Qui prius assuetus serpentum"] 378
noncan A sheafe of Snakes used heretofore to be / my Seal, the Crest of our poore Family
["Adopted in Gods Family"] 379
noncan "Ut primum per literas, eo quo solent ordine" 380-84
Gaz Translated out of Gazaeus ["God grant thee thine own wish"] 385
noncan To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, / with M. Donnes Satyres
["Lvcy, you brightnesse of our Spheare"] 386
noncan To John Donne ["Who shall doubt, Donne"] 387
ElVar Variety ["The heavens rejoice in motion"] 388-90
SelfL Self Love ["He that cannot choose but love"] 391-92
[Elegies upon the Author] unpaginated
To the Memorie of My Ever Desired Friend Dr. Donne.
["To have liv'd eminent, in a degree"] [393-94]
In obitum venerabilis viri Iohannis Donne
["Conquerar? ignavoq%M sequar tua funera planctu?"] [395-97]
On the death of Dr. Donne ["I cannot blame those men, that knew thee well"] [398]
On Doctor Donne, by Doctor C.B. of O. ["Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee"] [398-99]
An Elegie upon the incomparable Dr. Donne ["All is not well, when such an one as I"] [399-401]
An Elegie upon Dr. Donne. ["Ovr Donne is dead; England should mourne"] [401-03]
Elegie on D.D. ["Now, by one yeare, time and our frailtie have"] [404-05]
On Dr. John Donne, late Deane of S. Paules, / London.
["Long since this taske of teares from you was due"] [405-08]
An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. John Donne, by M. Tho. Carie.
["Can we not force from widdowed Poetry"] [408-11]
An Elegie on D. Donne: By Sir Lucius Cary. ["Poets attend, the Elegie I sing"] [411-14]
On Dr. Donnes death: by M Mayne of Christ- / church in Oxford.
["Who shall presume to mourne thee, Donne, unlesse"] [414-16]
Vpon Mr. J. Donne, and his Poems.
["Who dares say thou art dead, whe%M he doth see"] [417-18]
Epitaph upon D. Donne, by Endy. Porter.
["This decent Vrne a sad inscription weares"] [419]
In memory of Dr. Donne, by Mr. R.B.
["Donne dead? 'Tis here reported true, though I"] [420-23]
Epitaph. ["Here lies Deane Donne"] [423]
The End.
Headings]
The Epistle / Dedicatory A3-A4
running head: Poems (verso of page) 2-264
Letters. (" " ") 266-88
Poems. (" " ") 294-368
Elegies Upon the Author. 394-422
Songs and Sonets 3-63
Epigrams. 65-67
Elegies. 69-97
Epithalamions. 99-117
Satyres. 119-39
Letters. 141-199
Funerall Elegies. 201-63
Letters. 265-89
Epistle. V2-V2v
Progresse of the Soule. 295-311
Divine Poems. 313-67
[No headings] 369-92
Elegies Upon the Author. 395-423
Poems not included in 1650
AltVic A Letter Written by Sir H. G. and J. D. Alternis Vicibus ["Since every tree begins"]
AutHook Ad Autorem ["Non eget Hookerus"]
AutJos Ad Autorem ["Emendare cupis Joseph"]
Cales Cales and Guiana ["If you from spoil"]
EG To Mr. E. G. ["Even as lame things"]
EgDD Epigraph from Death's Duel ["Corporis haec animae"]
Elegies:
ElBed Going to Bed ["Come, Madam, come"]
ElProg Love's Progress ["Whoever loves, if he do not propose"]
ElWar Love's War ["Till I have peace with thee"]
EtAD Epitaph on Ann Donne ["Annae Georgii More de filiae"]
EtED Epitaph on Elizabeth Drury ["Quo pergas, viator"]
EtRD Epitaph on Robert Drury ["Roberti Druri/ quo vix alter"]
EtSP Epitaph in Saint Paul's ["Ioannes Donne/ Sac: Theol: profess:"]
Faust Faustinus ["Faustinus keeps his sister"]
Heart "When my heart was mine own"
Holy Sonnets:
HSShe "Since she whom I loved"
HSShow "Show me dear Christ"
HSVex "O to vex me"
HWHiber H. W. in Hibernia Belligeranti ["Went you to conquer?"]
Ignatius, verse from
IgAver "Aversa facie Janum referre"
IgFeath "Feathers or straws swim on the water's face"
IgFlow "As a flower wet with last night's dew"
IgLark "The lark by busy and laborious ways"
IgNoise "With so great noise and horror"
IgOper "Operoso tramite scandent"
IgPiece "That the least piece which thence doth fall"
IgPlum "Aut plumam, aut paleam"
IgQual "Qualis hesterno madefacta rore"
IgResemb"Resemble Janus with a diverse face"
IgSport "My little wandering sportful soul"
IgTanto "Tanto fragore boatuque"
InAA Inscription in Corvinus' Album Amicorum ["In propria venit"]
InLI Inscription in Bible at Lincoln's Inn ["In Bibliotheca Hospitii"]
Jug The Juggler ["Thou callest me effeminate"]
Liar The Liar ["Thou in the fields walkest"]
Macaron In Eundem Macaronicon ["Quot, dos, haec, linguists"]
MHMary To the Lady Magdalen Herbert, of St. Mary Magdalen ["Her of your name"]
RWEnvy To Mr. R. W. ["Kindly I envy thy songs"]
RWMind To Mr. R. W. ["Muse not that by thy mind"]
RWZeal To Mr. R. W. ["Zealously my muse"]
Stat Stationes (from Devotions) ["Insultus morbi primus"]
Walton's Lives, verse from
WaltDeo "Deo opt. max. benigno"
WaltMult"Multiplicate sunt super"
WaltQuid"Quid habeo quid non acceppi"
Wing Sir John Wingfield ["Beyond th'old pillars"]