Stay o sweet and do not rise
- DMI number:
- 6707
- First Line:
- Stay o sweet and do not rise
- Last Line:
- Such wrong as when a married man doth woo
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lyric and Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Love and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Donne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant on 'Break of Day', Smith (1971): 45; First stanza is not by Donne, added to poem in 1669 edn., probably by John Dowland (Grierson, text I, 432; discusses, II, cxlviii).
- First Line:
- For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love
- Last Line:
- A pattern of your love
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Oh do not die for I shall hate
- Last Line:
- Of thee one hour than all else ever
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears
- Last Line:
- Who's therefore true because her truth kills me
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Some man unworthy to be possessor
- Last Line:
- But doth waste with greediness
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Some that have deeper digged love's mine than I
- Last Line:
- Sweetness and wit they are but mummy possessed
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions. Written by the Reverend John Donne [T96902]
- Page No(s):
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- Break of Day.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Donne's name
- Attributed To:
- John Donne
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.78-79
- Poem Title:
- Break of Day.
- Attribution:
- 'By the same Hand' i.e. Donne.
- Attributed To:
- John Donne
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [N64834]
- Page No(s):
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- Break of Day
- Attribution:
- 'By the same Hand' i.e. Donne
- Attributed To:
- John Donne
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