This man compared using poetry to eliminate the pain of his unrequited love to rivers that "purge seawaters' fretful salt away" in a poem that ends "a little wise, the best fools be."
This man compared using poetry to eliminate the pain of his unrequited love to rivers that "purge seawaters' fretful salt away" in a poem that ends "a little wise, the best fools be." Another of his poems urges"love me that I may die the gentler way, hate me because they love's too great for me." This author of "TheTriple Fool" and "The Prohibition" wrote to the Countess of Bedford about "the spider love, whichtransubstantiates all, and can convert Manna to gall" in "Twickham Garden." He suggested "ride tenthousand days and nights, til age snow white hairs on thee" in a poem listing impossible tasks such as "tellme where all past years are, or who cleft the devil's foot" that begins "go and catch a falling star." Anotherof his poems ends "except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me" andasks "batter my heart, three-personed God." For 10 points, name this author of "A Valediction: ForbiddingMourning" and the Holy Sonnets, a Metaphysical poet.
This man compared using poetry to eliminate the pain of his unrequited love to rivers that "purge seawaters' fretful salt away" in a poem that ends "a little wise, the best fools be."
 John Donne