(These are the five _Elegies_
suppressed
in _1633_--at such long
intervals did they find their way into print.
intervals did they find their way into print.
John Donne
_1635. _ Elegie XI. The Bracelet.
_1635. _ Elegie XVI. On his Mistris.
_1669. _ Elegie XVIII. Love's Progresse.
_1669. _ Elegie XIX. Going to Bed.
_1802. _[5] Elegie XX. Love's Warr.
(These are the five _Elegies_ suppressed in _1633_--at such long
intervals did they find their way into print. )
_1635. _ On himselfe.
We may add to these, without lengthy investigation, the four _Holy
Sonnets_ added in _1635_:--
I. 'Thou hast made me. '
III. 'O might those sighs and tears. '
V. 'I am a little world. '
VIII. 'If faithfull soules. '
For these (though in none of the three collections) we have, besides
internal probability, the evidence of _W_, clearly an unexceptionable
manuscript witness. Walton, too, vouches for the authenticity of the
_Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse_, which indeed no one but Donne
could have written.
This leaves for investigation, of poems inserted in _1635_, _1649_,
_1650_, or _1669_, the following:--
1. Song. 'Soules joy, now I am gone.