Donne
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Methought Love pitying me, when he saw this, Gave me your hands, the backs and palms to kiss.
Blackness
They're darker now than blackness.
Commissary
Great Destiny, the Commissary of God.
Creatureless
God was alone And creatureless at first.
Creeple
Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is.
Criterion
Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion.
Diffidence
That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy.
Environ
Environ me with darkness whilst I write.
Forth
Some forth their cabins peep.
Gallop
But gallop lively down the western hill.
Implicit
Back again to implicit faith I fall.
Infestation
Free from the infestation of enemies.
Jog
Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well-favored youth?
Libel
[He] libels now 'gainst each great man.
Litigious
Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, who quarrels move.
Loathly
This shows that you from nature loathly stray.
Magnetic
She that had all magnetic force alone.
Manure
Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
Nice
Dear love, continue nice and chaste.
Pandect
[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book.
Pawn
As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness.
Play
Courts are theaters where some men play.
Poetize
I versify the truth, not poetize.
Profanation
'T were profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.
Sinewy
The sinewy thread my brain lets fall.
Size
Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.
Storm
What at first was called a gust, the same Hath now a storm's, anon a tempest's name.
Tile
The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again.
Tongued
Tongued like the night crow.
Transient
If [we love] transitory things, which soon decay, Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
Transubstantiate
The spider love which transubstantiates all, And can convert manna to gall.
Understand
Imparadised in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see.
Verse
Verse embalms virtue.
Vituperation
When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him.
Wink
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink.
Womanly
A blushing, womanly discovering grace.
Worthiness
Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness?
Zany
Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.