John Donne is remembered for his famous phrase,"No man is an island" and poems of love and passion..by John Donne Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids' singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Things invisible go see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till Age snow white hairs on thee; Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true and fair. Such a pilgrimage were sweet, Yet do not; I would not go, Though at next door we might meet. Though she were true when you met her, And last till you write your letter Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. Return form John Donne to Poems
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