...she sun, and a he moon here, She gives the best light to his sphere, Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe. — Donne. Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a telescope ? Though God be our true glass, through which we see All, since the being of all things is...

...worse confounded": — Here lies a she sun, and a he moon here, She gives the best light to his sphere, Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a telescope ? Though God be our true glass, through which we see All, since the being of all things is...

...Valentine. VII. Here lyes a fhee Sunne, and a hee Moone here, 85 She gives the bed light to his Spheare, Or each is both, and all, and fo They unto one another nothing owe, And yet they doe, but are So juft and rich in that coyne which they pay, ((o That neither would, nor...

...Valentine. VII. Here lyes a mee Sunne, and a hee Moone here, 85 She gives the beft light to his Spheare, Or each is both, and all, and fo They unto one another nothing owe, And yet they doe, but are So juft and rich in that coyne which they pay, 90 That neither would, nor...

...he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. . . . Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a telescope? [In making their metaphors, the metaphysicals made such gross comparisons as] Physic and...

...poem, an odd set of images such that the poem is best known for Samuel Johnson's acerbic comment on it ("Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a teleS: DONNE AND LONDON scope," from his "Life of Cowley"). The qualities that Donne had come to associate...