This man asked an addressee to "Pour new seas in mine eyes" to drown "both parts" himself in "I am a little world made cunningly."
This man asked an addressee to "Pour new seas in mine eyes" to drown "both parts" himself in "I am a little world made cunningly." He also asked a revered being to "break, blow, burn and make me new." He chided a concept which is "slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men" and not "mighty and dreadful," and wrote of a creature which "sucked me first, and now sucks thee" in "The Flea." This author of "Batter my heart, three-personed God" and "Death, be not proud" wrote in his Meditations that "No man is an island." For 10 points, name this 17th-century British poet of the Holy Sonnets.
This man asked an addressee to "Pour new seas in mine eyes" to drown "both parts" himself in "I am a little world made cunningly."
John Donne 