English poem
Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Play's Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint
by John Donne
This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace, My span's last inch, my minute's latest point, And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoint My body and soul, and I shall sleep a space; But my ever-waking part shall see that face, Whose fear already shakes my every joint: Then, as my soul, t' heaven her first seat, takes flight, And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell, So fall my sins that all may have their right (To where they're bred, and would press me) to hell. Impute me righteous, thus purged of evil, For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devil.
More by John Donne
- Holy Sonnet III: O Might Those Sighs And Tears Return Again
- Holy Sonnet IV: Oh My Black Soul! Now Art Thou Summoned
- Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree
- Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly
- Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners Blow
- Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified
- Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud
- Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side