<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37359" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Damp</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN I am dead, and doctors know not why,<br> And my friends' curiosity<br>Will have me cut up to survey each part,<br>When they shall find your picture in my heart,<br> You think a sudden damp of love<br> Will thorough all their senses move,<br>And work on them as me, and so prefer<br>Your murder to the name of massacre,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor victories; but if you dare be brave,<br> And pleasure in your conquest have,<br>First kill th' enormous giant, your Disdain;<br>And let th' enchantress Honour, next be slain;<br> And like a Goth and Vandal rise,<br> Deface records and histories<br>Of your own arts and triumphs over men,<br>And without such advantage kill me then,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I could muster up, as well as you,<br> My giants, and my witches too,<br>Which are vast Constancy and Secretness;<br>But these I neither look for nor profess;<br> Kill me as woman, let me die<br> As a mere man; do you but try<br>Your passive valour, and you shall find then,<br>Naked you have odds enough of any man.</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=37359" data-title="The Damp de John Donne" data-description="WHEN I am dead, and doctors know not why,/ And my friends' curiosity/Will have me cut up to survey each part,/When they shall find your picture in my heart,/ You think a sudden damp of love/ Will thorough all their senses move,/And work on them..."></div> </div> </div>

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