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ELEGY: 10. THE DREAME by JOHN DONNE

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First Line: IMAGE OF HER WHOM I LOVE, MORE THAN SHE
Last Line: MAD WITH MUCH HEART, THEN IDEOTT WITH NONE.
Subject(s): SLEEP;
Image of her whom I love, more than she,
Whose faire impression in my faithfull heart,
Makes mee her @3Medall@1, and makes her love mee,
As Kings do coynes, to which their stamps impart
The value: goe, and take my heart from hence,
Which now is growne too great and good for me:
@3Honours@1 oppresse weake spirits, and our sense
Strong objects dull; the more, the lesse wee see.
When you are gone, and @3Reason@1 gone with you,
Then @3Fantasie@1 is Queene and Soule, and all;
She can present joyes meaner then you do;
Convenient, and more proportionall.
So, if I dreame I have you, I have you,
For, all our joyes are but fantasticall.
And so I scape the paine, for paine is true;
And sleepe which locks up sense, doth lock out all.
After a such fruition I shall wake,
And, but the waking, nothing shall repent;
And shall to love more thankfull Sonnets make,
Then if more @3honour, teares@1, and @3paines@1 were spent.
But dearest heart, and dearer image stay;
Alas, true joyes at best are @3dreame@1 enough;
Though you stay here you passe too fast away:
For even at first lifes @3Taper@1 is a snuffe.
Fill'd with her love, may I be rather grown
Mad with much @3heart@1, then @3ideott@1 with none.



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