Home > Author > John Donne >

" Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast hath all
Those pieces still, though they be not unite;
And now, as broken glasses show
A hundred lesser faces, so
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,
But after one such love, can love no more. "

John Donne , The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose


Image for Quotes

John Donne quote : Yet nothing can to nothing fall,<br />Nor any place be empty quite;<br />Therefore I think my breast hath all<br />Those pieces still, though they be not unite;<br />And now, as broken glasses show<br />A hundred lesser faces, so<br />My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,<br />But after one such love, can love no more.