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Holy Sonnets

John Donne

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1633
Pages
Pages 20

A poet argues with God in fourteen-line bursts, begging to be battered, ransomed and remade, and taunting death itself with its own coming end.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe
Holy Sonnets, John Donne

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