| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | Resvrrection | | II. John Donne |
| | | MOYST with one drop of thy blood, my dry soule | |
| Shall—though she be now in extreme degree | |
| Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly—bee | |
| Freed by that drop from being starv’d, hard, or foule, | |
| And life, by this death abled, shall controule | 5 |
| Death, whom thy death slue; nor shall to mee | |
| Feare of first or last death bring miserie, | |
| If in thy little booke my name thou enroules: | |
| Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified, | |
| But made that there of which, and for which, ’twas, | 10 |
| Nor can be other meanes be glorified. | |
| May then sinnes sleep, and death soone from me passe, | |
| That, wakt from both, I againe risen, may | |
| Salute the last, and everlasting day. | | | | |
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