Lyric Poem · Peace
Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow
by John Donne
1At the round earth's imagined corners blow
2Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
3From death, you numberless infinities
4Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
5All whom the flood did, and fire shall, overthrow,
6All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
7Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes
8Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe.
9But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space,
10For, if above all these my sins abound,
11'Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace,
12When we are there. Here on this lowly ground
13Teach me how to repent; for that's as good
14As if Thou'dst sealed my pardon, with Thy blood.
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- Poem
- Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow
- Poet
- John Donne
- Length
- 14 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Peace, Death & Loss, Sad
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- 14 lines · one 14-line stanza
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- Mostly 10-syllable lines (pentameter length).
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- Author record
- John Donne1572–1631
- Source record
- PoetryDBHoly Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow by john-donne, PoetryDB transcription
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