Song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go

by John Donne (1633) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A gentle reassurance on the eve of leaving: I go only as the sun goes, and will turn round just as surely.

SWEETEST love, I do not go,
For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can show
A fitter love for me;
But since that I
At the last must part, 'tis best,
Thus to use myself in jest
By feigned deaths to die.…

Themes: long-distance · love