John Donne

Here you will find the Poem A Valediction: of Weeping of poet John Donne

A Valediction: of Weeping

Let me pour forth 
My tears before thy face, whil'st I stay here, 
For thy face coins them, and thy stamp they bear, 
And by this Mintage they are something worth, 
For thus they be 
Pregnant of thee; 
Fruits of much grief they are, emblems of more, 
When a tear falls, that thou falls which it bore, 
So thou and I are nothing then, when on a divers shore. 
On a round ball 
A workman that hath copies by, can lay 
An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, 
And quickly make that, which was nothing, All, 
So doth each tear, 
Which thee doth wear, 
A globe, yea world by that impression grow, 
Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow 
This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so. 
O more than Moon, 
Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere, 
Weep me not dead, in thine arms, but forbear 
To teach the sea, what it may do too soon; 
Let not the wind 
Example find, 
To do me more harm, than it purposeth; 
Since thou and I sigh one another's breath, 
Who e'r sighs most, is cruellest, and hastes the other's death.