This poet argued that "half-acre tombs" are no better than "a well-wrought urn" for the greatest ashes in a poem which begins "
This poet labeled "hours, days, months" as "the rags of time" in a poem which addressed its subject as a "busy old fool" in asking why "through windows, and through curtains, call on us?" This poet argued that "half-acre tombs" are no better than "a well-wrought urn" for the greatest ashes in a poem which begins "For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love." This poet quoted the opening line of Marlow's "Passionate Shepherd to his Love," but promises "new pleasures" of "golden sands, and crystal brooks, with silken lines, and silver hooks." This poet of "The Sun Rising" and "Canonization" wrote that "I have done a braver thing than all the worthies did" in "The Undertaking." He claimed "no man is an island" in one of the Meditations in his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and used a compass metaphor in "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." For 10 points, name this metaphysical poet of "The Bait" who admonished "Death, be not proud" in one of his Holy Sonnets.
This poet labeled "hours, days, months" as "the rags of time" in a poem which addressed its subject as a "busy old fool" in asking why "through windows, and through curtains, call on us?"
John {Donne}