In one of these works the speaker compares himself to a "hydropic drunkard" and a "night scouting thief" in lamenting his suffering. In another, the speaker invokes treasonous pilgrims to describe his "black soul." A poem in this collection asks the addressee to "pour new seas in mine eyes, that so I might / Drown my world with my weeping earnestly." The eleventh of them imagines the narrator as Christ commanding his Jewish executioners to "pierce my side," while number 17, which begins "Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt," has ofte
In one of these works the speaker compares himself to a "hydropic drunkard" and a "night scouting thief" in lamenting his suffering. In another, the speaker invokes treasonous pilgrims to describe his "black soul." A poem in this collection asks the addressee to "pour new seas in mine eyes, that so I might / Drown my world with my weeping earnestly." The eleventh of them imagines the narrator as Christ commanding his Jewish executioners to "pierce my side," while number 17, which begins "Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt," has often been read as an elegy to the poet's wife, Anne Moore.Â In another of these poems, the speaker compares himself to a "usurped town" and asks the addressee to "break, blow, burn and make me new". Often titled by their first lines, poems in this collection include "I am a little world made cunningly" and "Batter my heart, three person'd god." For 10 points, identify this collection of nineteen poems which includes "Death, be not proud," by John Donne.