StoryTitle("caps", "Death") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Death, be not proud, though some have calléd thee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Die not, poor Death; nor yet canst thou kill me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From Rest and Sleep, which but thy picture be, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And soonest our best men with thee do go— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rest of their bones and souls' delivery! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "One short sleep past, we wake eternally, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die!", "") ?>
Poet("John Donne", "1573-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>