Vivian Bearing quotes these works throughout Margaret Edson's play Wit, and Herbert Grierson argued that they were "separate ejaculations" instead of a sequence. One of these poems contrasts Jacob's theft of Esau's birthright with God clothing "himself in vile man's flesh that so / He might be weak 
Vivian Bearing quotes these works throughout Margaret Edson's play Wit, and Herbert Grierson argued that they were "separate ejaculations" instead of a sequence. One of these poems contrasts Jacob's theft of Esau's birthright with God clothing "himself in vile man's flesh that so / He might be weak enough to suffer woe." Another of these poems begins "I am a little world made cunningly," while yet another asks if "poisonous minerals," "lecherous goats," and "serpents envious" "cannot be damned," "why should I be?" The tenth one begins "Batter my heart, three-personed God," and the sixth asserts that "One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die." Including "Death, be not proud," FTP, name this set of nineteen sonnets by John Donne.
Vivian Bearing quotes these works throughout Margaret Edson's play Wit, and Herbert Grierson argued that they were "separate ejaculations" instead of a sequence.