John Donne - The Ecstacy

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	John Donne - The Ecstacy

amothindisguise

8-1-2007 5:43 PM

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The best way I've ever heard "making love" described

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/686c549b-da90-4789-a6fe-5a666699f1d6/167CE7FA-97C4-4623-B71B-04AAB79F15D9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm" href="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.luminarium.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm">
As, 'twixt two equal armies, Fate 
Suspends uncertain victory, 
Our souls—which to advance their state, <BR /><DIV>
    Were gone out—hung 'twixt her and me</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm">
If any, so by love refined, 
That he soul's language understood, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm">
He—though he knew not which soul spake, 
Because both meant, both spake the same— 
Might thence a new concoction take, <BR /><DIV>
    And part far purer than he came.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm">
This ecstasy doth unperplex 
(We said) and tell us what we love ; 
We see by this, it was not sex ; <BR /><DIV>
    We see, we saw not, what did move :</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm">
But as all several souls contain 
Mixture of things they know not what, 
Love these mix'd souls doth mix again, <BR /><DIV>
    And makes both one, each this, and that.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm">
We then, who are this new soul, know, 
Of what we are composed, and made, 
For th' atomies of which we grow <BR /><DIV>
    Are souls, whom no change can invade.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm">
To our bodies turn we then, that so 
Weak men on love reveal'd may look ; 
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, <BR /><DIV>
    But yet the body is his book.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/167CE7FA-97C4-4623-B71B-04AAB79F15D9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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