In the book in which it appears, it precedes a poem in which the author wishes that anyone who "guesses, thinks, or dreams" he knows who the author's mistress is be withered by a curse.
In the book in which it appears, it precedes a poem in which the author wishes that anyone who "guesses, thinks, or dreams" he knows who the author's mistress is be withered by a curse. In the second stanza of this poem, the author asks that "self murder" and "sacrilege" not be added to a woman's sins. The title creature is meant to show "how little that which" a woman denies to the poet is, and is said to be both a "marriage temple" and a "marriage bed," while the poet and a woman are met "and cloistered" and "living walls of jet." FTP, name this poem about a creature which sucked a woman and then sucked John Donne, thereby mingling two bloods.
In the book in which it appears, it precedes a poem in which the author wishes that anyone who "guesses, thinks, or dreams" he knows who the author's mistress is be withered by a curse.
"The Flea"