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Interesting write-up, Donne does not get enough discussion or credit. "Elegy II: The Anagram" [0] is in my mind the funniest poem ever written in the English l

• kwhitefoot 10y ago
  And one of the most erotic too. ===================== Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed ... Thou shalt upon another forest set, Where some do shipwreck, and no further get. When thou art there, consider what this chase Misspent by thy beginning at the face. ===================== The last four lines quoted as I have done here are almost incomprehensible and yet in context it is really rather racy even today.