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Summary The Sun Rising
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Detailed summary of the poem The sun rising by John Donne.
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The Sun Rising
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AhhBusy old fool, unrulv Sun perecnifi Eytenclcd mctcphor
Why dost thou thus, COmpCU ing the ovcIs bed
Through windows, and through curtains, call on tp the ertirc noHd,
us? Phe toricl CnCeHan dirninishina
Of fhe Sun the Gigni
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Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? Rhetonical ayucetin
lover6 are vry
saucv.pedantic wretch, go aesiritated
He Late schoolboys, and sour prentices,
moving Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices anothe regsn
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Horters dddresSing the sunCAS
,Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
If (1 herc an intuSIe
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of per son
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Thy beams, so reverend and strong the
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are shong of the overe bed ancl
Why shouldst thou think? the auns Clctivitics,
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,i you ncthah you
But that I would not lose her sight so long: hyprbole
her cou i< bealtifut
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moeIf her eyes have not blinded thine,
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an Look, and tomorrow late, tell me >lignt a ssertng the poner of
lo ve oUCr natwal forces
Whether both the'lndias of spice and mod itn
Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me.
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Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear: 'All here in one bed lay.
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She'is allstates, and allprinces I,
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Nothing else is. et gorgecus blittestheSUn.
Princes do but play us; compard to this,
Allhonour's mimic, all wealth,alchemy.m s
+he love Thou, sun, art half as happy'as we,
his expr that the worid's contracted thus;uOre npt OG haAaG T
tho ught gou vee
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; to nannS
This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.
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