<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37282" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love's Alchemy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,<br>Say, where his centric happiness doth lie.<br> I have loved, and got, and told,<br>But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,<br>I should not find that hidden mystery.<br> O! 'tis imposture all;<br>And as no chemic yet th' elixir got,<br> But glorifies his pregnant pot,<br> If by the way to him befall<br>Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal,<br> So, lovers dream a rich and long delight,<br> But get a winter-seeming summer's night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our ease, our thrift, our honour, and our day,<br>Shall we for this vain bubble's shadow pay?<br> Ends love in this, that my man<br>Can be as happy as I can, if he can<br>Endure the short scorn of a bridegroom's play?<br> That loving wretch that swears,<br>'Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds,<br> Which he in her angelic finds,<br> Would swear as justly, that he hears,<br>In that day's rude hoarse minstrelsy, the spheres.<br> Hope not for mind in women; at their best,<br> Sweetness and wit they are, but mummy, possess'd.</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=37282" data-title="Love's Alchemy de John Donne" data-description="Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,/Say, where his centric happiness doth lie./ I have loved, and got, and told,/But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,/I should not find that hidden mystery./ O! 'tis imposture all;/And as no c..."></div> </div> </div>

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