Song (Go And Catch A Falling Star)

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John Donne 1572–1631

Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.

If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee; Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet: Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three.

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  1. Nadia Pakistan

    the poem shows tht Jhon Donne the big visitors of women , he praise the beauty of women but thinks that beautiful women is poison

  2. Belkacemi Fethi Algeria

    As a first step to be in the right position to do the task one has to have the proper storage to understand this kind of wit because the good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from the bad judgement. Wilt,this experience and that of Donne pushed him to realaze the main and the obvious notion or consept of what we call woman in my opinion and throughout the ethics of the holly creed of our prophet…

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    As a first step to be in the right position to do the task one has to have the proper storage to understand this kind of wit because the good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from the bad judgement.
    Wilt,this experience and that of Donne pushed him to realaze the main and the obvious notion or consept of what we call woman in my opinion and throughout the ethics of the holly creed of our prophet wish peace and god's praiers on him had taugh us how can we see the real point of reality through the dark apearl of the woman's sins and behaveour.And the beautiful female is whom had been loved by all after having tapped or shaked by her reality . And Jhon Donne had seen this secret after having seen her coiling as a worm in man's viens.from your frind Mr BELKACEMI FETHI BP 178 chettia chlef 02170 Algeria

  3. krati bhomia India

    this poem shows that the poet talks about the fiedlity present in the nature of women and he tries to analysis he life cycle by hinting the various stages of human life.

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