John Donne Love Poems: ”A Fever” and ”Break of Day”

In "A Fever" Donne fears the loss of his "world's soul" to illness. The poet's passion recognizes the eternal, which can never perish, in his love:

Thy beauty, and all parts, which are thee,
    Are unchangeable firmament.

But while his lover may be eternal, eternity's VALUE is constrained in love's present:

For I had rather owner be
    Of thee one hour, than all else ever.

 I can only say, Amen. Take my wife, and you've taken my life.

"Break of Day" contrasts love with material concerns.

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