- Holy Sonnets — Holy Sonnet 17
- John Donne
- Exported from Wikisource on 02/06/20
- Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
- To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead,
- And her soul early into heaven ravishèd,
- Wholly on heavenly things my mind is set.
- Here the admiring her my mind did whet
- To seek thee, God; so streams do show the head;
- But though I have found thee, and thou my thirst hast fed,
- A holy thirsty dropsy melts me yet.
- But why should I beg more love, whenas thou
- Dost woo my soul, for hers offering all thine:
- And dost not only fear lest I allow
- My love to saints and angels, things divine,
- But in thy tender jealousy dost doubt
- Lest the world, flesh, yea, devil put thee out.
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