Thursday, March 10, 2005

LOVERS' INFINITENESS.
by John Donne


IF yet I have not all thy love,
Dear, I shall never have it all ;
I cannot breathe one other sigh, to move,
Nor can intreat one other tear to fall ;
And all my treasure, which should purchase thee,
Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters I have spent ;
Yet no more can be due to me,
Than at the bargain made was meant.
If then thy gift of love were partial,
That some to me, some should to others fall,
Dear, I shall never have thee all.

Or if then thou gavest me all,
All was but all, which thou hadst then ;
But if in thy heart since there be or shall
New love created be by other men,
Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears,
In sighs, in oaths, and letters, outbid me,
This new love may beget new fears,
For this love was not vow'd by thee.
And yet it was, thy gift being general ;
The ground, thy heart, is mine ; what ever shall
Grow there, dear, I should have it all.

Yet I would not have all yet.
He that hath all can have no more ;
And since my love doth every day admit
New growth, thou shouldst have new rewards in store ;
Thou canst not every day give me thy heart,
If thou canst give it, then thou never gavest it ;
Love's riddles are, that though thy heart depart,
It stays at home, and thou with losing savest it ;
But we will have a way more liberal,
Than changing hearts, to join them ; so we shall
Be one, and one another's all
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so sweet.tis is like my fave's john donne's love poem..in this poem,he talks as in the impossibility of him giving all his love to his lover,because if he has given all his love,then the next day he got no more love to give his lover. N he talks of how he dont want all the love of his lover,because after that he shall receive no more already.

in the 2nd para, he talks of how new guys may come along n may beat him in winnin her love,but since her heart belongs to him,then he should have all her love and more because love grows from the heart.so whateva *new love that other guys received from her are just mere gifts.

then lastly he talks of how he dont want all her love because if he has all her love,he cannot haf anymore of her love which is so sad la. n he talks of how she should not *give him her heart everyday coz it basically means she never give her heart in the first place ar. so he *lost everyday coz he didnt get to haf her heart *everyday but then,with losing comes saving ar. thus is the line 'with losing savest it' ..then he concluded that if they can be together as one,and be 'one another's all' it'll be so much better because her heart will grow in him and vice-versa...so they'll grow together in love n literally..so sweet..

Siti Nuraishah :+: Landed On :+: Thursday, March 10, 2005

12th October 1985