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John Donne - The Indifferent

I can love both fair and brown,
Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays,
Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays,
Her whom the country formed, and whom the town,
Her who believes, and her who tries,
Her who still weeps with spongy eyes,
And her who is dry cork, and never cries;
I can love her, and her, and you, and you,
I can love any, so she be not true.
Will no other vice content you?
Will it not serve your turn to do as did your mothers?
Or have you old vices spent, and now would find out others?
Or doth a fear, that men are true, torment you?
Oh we are not, be not you so;
Let me, and do you, twenty know.
Rob me, but bind me not, and let me go.
Must I, who came to travel thorough you,
Grow your fixed subject, because you are true?

Venus heard me sigh this song,
And by Love's sweetest part, Variety, she swore
She heard not this till now; and that it should be so no more.
She went, examined, and returned ere long,
And said, "Alas, some two or three
Poor heretics in love there be,
Which think to 'stablish dangerous constancy.
But I have told them, Since you will be true,
You shall be true to them who're false to you."

Added: on March 12th, 2009 at 1:22 AM | Viewed: 2628 times | Comments (9)


The Indifferent - Comments and Information

Poet: John Donne
Poem: The Indifferent

Comment 9 of 9, added on November 1st, 2009 at 8:48 PM.

the poem is clearly about nausea and vomitting...and sex.

Azael from Brazil
Comment 8 of 9, added on April 26th, 2009 at 7:39 AM.

I think this poem reflect the background of John Donne because he had Catholic family and religious trends as many scholars said. Maybe that's why he tried to creat some virtue principles of one of the great concern in life that concern which most people don't understand how its has pure meanings so, they just try to corrupted the love and mix it with other sins.

Moon Secret from Saudi Arabia
Comment 7 of 9, added on March 12th, 2009 at 1:22 AM.

i'd just like to make the point that john donne was born into a deeply catholic family and remained catholic for a significant proportion of his life, he converted to protastantism not christianity. at this point in his life however there is proof he was taking part in a "doubting search" for his "true religion" (Satire 3).

E from Austria

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