This poem is followed by a poem that asks "I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?" in its author's collected Songs and Sonnets. This poem argues that "though parents grudge, and you, we're met / And cloistered in these living walls of jet." The speaker asks this poem's addressee "Cruel and sudden, hast thou since / Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?", and compares the title figure to a marriage bed and marriage temple. Describing how the title figure "sucked me first, and now sucks thee," the speaker uses the "two bloods mingled" harmlessly in
This poem is followed by a poem that asks "I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?" in its author's collected Songs and Sonnets. This poem argues that "though parents grudge, and you, we're met / And cloistered in these living walls of jet." The speaker asks this poem's addressee "Cruel and sudden, hast thou since / Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?", and compares the title figure to a marriage bed and marriage temple. Describing how the title figure "sucked me first, and now sucks thee," the speaker uses the "two bloods mingled" harmlessly in the title animal as a metaphor for sex. For 10 points, name this poem about an insect by John Donne.
This poem is followed by a poem that asks "I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?
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