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#29

Air and Angels

Cyclone_57168

Jul 28, 2025

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TWICE or thrice had I loved thee,

Before I knew thy face or name ;

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame

Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be.

Still when, to where thou wert, I came,

Some lovely glorious nothing did I see.

But since my soul, whose child Love is,

Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,

More subtle than the parent is

Love must not be, but take a body too;

And therefore what thou wert, and who,

I bid Love ask, and now

That it assume thy body, I allow,

And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.

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Whilst thus to ballast Love I thought,

And so more steadily to have gone,

With wares which would sink admiration,

I saw I had love's pinnace overfraught;

Thy every hair for Love to work upon,

Is much too much ; some fitter must be sought;

For, nor in nothing, nor in things

Extreme, and scattering bright, can love inhere;

Then as an angel face and wings,

Of air, not pure as it, yet pure doth wear,

So thy love may be my love's sphere;

Just such disparity

As is 'twixt air's and angels' purity,

'Twixt women's love, and men's, will ever be.

- John Donne

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Table of Contents

#3 I. Lines of Honor

#4 A. The Sonorous Sonnets

#5 How Do I Love Thee

#6 I Carry Your Heart with Me

#7 Love Sonnet II

#8 Not in A Silver Casket Cool with Pearls

#9 Of Love: A Sonnet

#10 Six Sonnets Crossing the West

#13 Sonnet XVII

#26 B. The Lovable Lines

#28 Again and Again, even though we know love's landscape

#29 Air and Angels

#30 Always For The First Time