I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den? ’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
And now good-morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mixed equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
English translations of semi-obscure scholastic philosophy and theology including works by Duns Scotus, William de la Mare, Antonius Andreas, Francis of Meyronnes, Ockham, Francisco Suarez, and St. Bellarmine.
Jose Garcia
John Donne was an Anglican, so I would say it's an Anglican poem
Aiden Nguyen
Who else successfully resisted the temptation to watch trap bukkake today?
Leo Edwards
I see it as a Christian poem. St. John of the Cross, a Catholic, also wrote Christian poems. Why get so hung up over denominations? Even at my Catholic parish we sing some hymns written by Anglicans, Lutherans and even Methodists because we understand them to be broadly Christian. There's no doctrine in the Donne poem. I posted it simply because it's a beautiful Christian poem and I feel matches the Anglo-Catholic style of the Watts Chapel in OP.
t. Catholic
I love libraries such as the one you linked. Please share more if you have any others.
Daniel Reyes
>aristotelophile.com/current.htm Ugh. But that music though. I like Satie and all, but why does the curator have to have music on his page?
Jaxson Jackson
Thankfully I've never reached anything near that point of depravity.
Jayden Bailey
Sick!
Brody Parker
That was my point precisely. Why is your thread about "Catholic" literature then? This isn't the first such thread that I'm asking this question and I haven't got a satisfactory answer so far, or perhaps one that I can understand. I'm not very knowledgeable about the differences between the various Christian denominations' dogma.
