StoryTitle("caps", "The Ecstasy") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where, like a pillow on a bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A pregnant bank swell'd up, to rest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The violet's reclining head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sat we two, one another's best. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our hands were firmly cémented", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By a fast balm which thence did spring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our eyes upon one double string. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So to engraft our hands, as yet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was all the means to make us one;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And pictures in our eyes to get ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was all our propagation. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As 'twixt two equal armies Fate ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Suspends uncertain victory, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our souls—which to advance their state", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Were gone out—hung 'twixt her and me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And whilst our souls negotiate there, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We like sepulchral statues lay; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All day the same our postures were, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we said nothing, all the day. ", "") ?>
Poet("John Donne", "1573-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>