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1633 [john-donne] Holy Sonnet X: Death be not proud
Holy Sonnets

Death is addressed to its face and steadily demoted — from dreadful power to a slave of fate and chance, no better than poppy or charms at bringing sleep — until the last line kills it outright.

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1633 [john-donne] Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart, three person’d God
Holy Sonnets

A prayer that asks God to stop knocking and start breaking: the speaker is a usurped town whose viceroy reason has proved untrue, and only being imprisoned can free him, only being ravished can make him chaste.

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