StoryTitle("caps", "Ode") ?>
That Time and Absence Proves
Rather Helps than Hurts to Loves
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Absence, hear thou my protestation ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Against thy strength, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Distance and length: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do what thou canst for alteration, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For hearts of truest mettle ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Absence doth join and Time doth settle. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who loves a mistress of such quality, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His mind hath found ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Affection's ground ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beyond time, place, and all mortality. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To hearts that cannot vary ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Absence is present, Time doth tarry. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My senses want their outward motion ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which now within ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Reason doth win, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Redoubled by her secret notion: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like rich men that take pleasure ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In hiding more than handling treasure. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By Absence this good means I gain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That I can catch her ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where none can watch her, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In some close corner of my brain: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There I embrace and kiss her, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And so enjoy her and none miss her.", "") ?>
Poet("John Donne", "1573-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>