...discovered skeleton, identifying the lover : everybody_the jDgrfect fancy and phrase of the exordium — " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of Love was born." But similar touches are almost everywhere. The enshrining once for all in the simplest words of a universal...

...Love's Deity," with the enchanting melody of its opening couplet, gives expression to his tortu/e — " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died...Love was born ; I cannot think that he who, then, loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this God produced a destiny, And...

...when he writes such lines as — O more than Moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere ! or I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born, being driven by stress of poetical passion into the momentary adoption of a pure style, he is comparable...

...nor persistent in it, but as a studied eccentricity of his youth. At his very best, as in or as in " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Love was born," " A naked, thinking heart, that makes no show, Is to a woman but a kind of ghost," there is no trace...

...when he writes such lines as — 0 more than Moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere ! or I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born, being driven by stress of poetical passion into the momentary adoption of a pure style, he is comparable...

...Consequently, when he writes such lines as— O more than Moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere ! or I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born, It may be questioned whether, at the present moment, there are not one or two flagrant Donnes flourishing...

...heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.' Again, the following lines, the title of which is...are inlaid in a costly but imperfect mosaic-work. ' / long to talh with some oU lower's ghost, Who died before the Gad of Love was born : I cannot think...

...distinctions generally cause the composition to end nowhere. He begins a poem called Love's Deity thus : — I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Love was born. The object of the discourse is to be the mystery why love should be forced from one lover where there...

...of this author's manner, in which the thoughts are inlaid in a costly but imperfect mosaic-work. ' / long to talk 'with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Ltevc 'was born : I cannot think that he, who then lov'd most, Sunk so low, as to love one which did...

...and remit them not in peace, No winter shall abate this spring's increase. 12 John Donne Love's Deity I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died...of love was born. I cannot think that he who then loved most Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produced a destiny, And that...