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                  <name type="displayName">John Donne</name>
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                  <forename>Ethan</forename>
                  <surname>Webb</surname>
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            <publisher>University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry</publisher>
            <pubPlace>Victoria, BC, Canada</pubPlace>
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            <note>Poem included in the prose contribution <title level="a">Dr. Donne</title> by H. M. Sanders (614-28). (HD)</note>
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               <title level="j">Temple Bar</title>
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                     <incipit>If yet I have not all thy love</incipit>
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               <l>“ If yet I have not all thy <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="a">love</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>Dear, I shall never have it <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="b">all</rhyme> ;</l>
               <l>I cannot breathe one other sigh to <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeEye" label="a">move</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>Nor can entreat one other tear to <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="b">fall</rhyme> ;</l>
               <l>And all my treasure, which should purchase <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="c">thee</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters, I have <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="d">spent</rhyme> ;</l>
               <l>Yet no more can be due to <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="c">me</rhyme></l>
               <l>Than at the bargain made was <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="d">meant</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>If then thy gift of love were <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeFeminine dvpp:rhymeCrossStanza" label="e">partial</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>That some to me, some should to others <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="b">fall</rhyme>,</l>
               <l ana="dvpp:sdRefrain">Dear, I shall never have thee <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeIdentical" label="b">all</rhyme>.</l>
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               <l>Or if when thou gavest me <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="b">all</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>All was but all which thou hadst <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="f">then</rhyme> ;</l>
               <l>But if in thy heart since there be or <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeEye" label="b">shall</rhyme></l>
               <l>New love created be by other <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="f">men</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>Which have their stocks entire, and can in <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="g">tears</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>In sighs, in oaths, and letters, outbid <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="c">me</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>This new love may beget new <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="g">fears</rhyme> ;</l>
               <l>For this love was not vowed by <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="c">thee</rhyme>.</l>
               <l>And yet it was, thy gift being <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeHalf dvpp:rhymeCrossStanza" label="e">general</rhyme>.</l>
               <l>The ground, thy heart, is mine ; whatever <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeEye" label="b">shall</rhyme></l>
               <l ana="dvpp:sdRefrain dvpp:sdVariant">Grow there, dear, I should have it <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeIdentical" label="b">all</rhyme>.</l>
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               <l>Yet I would not have all <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="h">yet</rhyme>.</l>
               <l>He that hath all can have no <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="i">more</rhyme> ;</l>
               <l>And since my love doth every day ad<rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeHalf" label="h">mit</rhyme></l>
               <l>New growth, thou shouldst have new rewards in <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="i">store</rhyme>.</l>
               <l>Thou canst not every day give me thy <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="j">heart</rhyme> ;</l>
               <l>If thou canst give it then thou never <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeDactylic" label="k">gavest it</rhyme>.</l>
               <l>Love’s riddles are, that though thy heart de<rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="j">part</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>It stays at home, and thou with losing <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeDactylic" label="k">savest it</rhyme>.</l>
               <l>But we will have a way more <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeHalf dvpp:rhymeCrossStanza" label="e">liberal</rhyme>,</l>
               <l>Than changing hearts, to join them ; so we <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeEye" label="b">shall</rhyme></l>
               <l ana="dvpp:sdRefrain dvpp:sdVariant">Be one, and one another’s <rhyme type="dvpp:rhymeMasculine" label="b">all</rhyme>.”</l>
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