![]() There is no scholarly consensus regarding the structure of Holy Sonnet XIV different critics refer to particular parts of this poem either as an octave and a sestet (following the style of the Petrarchan sonnet, with a prominent example being Robert H. However, the majority of twentieth-century and later editions of Donne's Holy Sonnets are found to prefer and use the order proposed by Grierson and thus include the sonnet as the fourteenth in the cycle. In the 1633 edition the sequence of the poems was different from that found in Herbert Grierson’s edition from 1912 that is why Holy Sonnet XIV features as Holy Sonnet X in older publications. The poem was printed and published for the first time in Poems in 1633, two years after the author's death. ![]() It is a part of a larger series of poems called Holy Sonnets, comprising nineteen poems in total. " Holy Sonnet XIV" – also known by its first line as " Batter my heart, three-person'd God" – is a poem written by the English poet John Donne (1572 – 1631). Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,ĭivorce me, untie or break that knot again,Įxcept you enthrall me, never shall be free, Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,īut is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue. Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend ![]() Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for youĪs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend
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