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Redeption

10/09/06

Redeption

Permalink 06:34:00 pm by cassie, Categories: Announcements [A]

Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o?erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but O, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
but is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy.
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again;
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor even chaste, except you ravish me.

--John Donne

3 comments

Comment from: Crystal [Visitor]
CrystalCassie Cassie Cassie. That has been one of my favorite poems *ever*, since I did an oral presentation on it in my freshman year of college.
10/10/06 @ 19:41
Comment from: nika [Visitor]
nikammmmph. I love John Donne, and that poem is incredible.
10/11/06 @ 10:46
Comment from: sj [Visitor]
sjI miss you. A lot. Like, wicked a lot.
10/14/06 @ 16:57
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