Lyric Poem · Peace

Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow

by John Donne

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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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Author record: John Donne1572–1631
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