<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37016" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As virtuous men pass mildly away,<br> And whisper to their souls to go,<br>Whilst some of their sad friends do say,<br> "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So let us melt, and make no noise,<br> No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;<br>'Twere profanation of our joys<br> To tell the laity our love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears;<br> Men reckon what it did, and meant;<br>But trepidation of the spheres,<br> Though greater far, is innocent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dull sublunary lovers' love<br> —Whose soul is sense—cannot admit<br>Of absence, 'cause it doth remove<br> The thing which elemented it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we by a love so much refined,<br> That ourselves know not what it is,<br>Inter-assurèd of the mind,<br> Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our two souls therefore, which are one,<br> Though I must go, endure not yet<br>A breach, but an expansion,<br> Like gold to aery thinness beat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If they be two, they are two so<br> As stiff twin compasses are two;<br>Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show<br> To move, but doth, if th' other do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though it in the centre sit,<br> Yet, when the other far doth roam,<br>It leans, and hearkens after it,<br> And grows erect, as that comes home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such wilt thou be to me, who must,<br> Like th' other foot, obliquely run;<br>Thy firmness makes my circle just<br> And makes me end where I begun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37016" data-title="A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning de John Donne" data-description="As virtuous men pass mildly away,/ And whisper to their souls to go,/Whilst some of their sad friends do say,/ "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."/So let us melt, and make no noise,/ No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;/'Twere profanatio..."></div> </div> </div>

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