A Jet Ring Sent
John Donne * Track #6 On Poems of John Donne
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Album Poems of John Donne
- #1A Burnt Ship
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- #2A dialogue between Sir Henry Wootton and Mr. Donne
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- #3A Fever
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- #4A Hymn To Christ At The Author’s Last Going Into Germany
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- #5A Hymn To God The Father
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- #6A Jet Ring Sent
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- #7A Lame Beggar
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- #8A Lecture Upon The Shadow
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- #9A Licentious Person
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- #10A Litany
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- #11A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being The Shortest Day
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- #12A Self Accuser
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- #13A Sheaf Of Snakes Used Heretofore To Be My Seal, The Crest Of Our Poor Family
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- #14A Valediction Of Weeping
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- #15An Anatomy Of The World...
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- #16An Obscure Writer
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- #17Antiquary
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- #18At the round earth’s imagin’d corners
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- #19Break of Day
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- #20Community
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- #21Confined Love
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- #22Daybreak
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- #23Disinherited
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- #24Eclogue
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- #25Elegy I: Jealousy
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- #26Elegy II: The Anagram
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- #27Elegy III: Change
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- #28Elegy IV: The Perfume
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- #29Elegy V: His Picture
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- #30Elegy VI
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- #31Elegy VII
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- #32Elegy VIII: The Comparison
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- #33Elegy IX: The Autumnal
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- #34Elegy X: The Dream
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- #35Elegy XII
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- #36Elegy XIII: His Parting From Her
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- #37Elegy XIV: Julia
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- #38Elegy XVII: On His Mistress
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- #39Elegy XVI: The Expostulation
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- #40Elegy XVIII: Love’s Progress
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- #41Elegy XX (Alternate) Love’s War
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- #42Elegy:The End of Funeral Elegies
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- #43ElegyXI: The Bracelet
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- #44Epithalamion Made At Lincoln’s Inn
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- #45Fall of a Wall
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- #46Farewell to Love
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- #47For whom the Bell Tolls
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- #48From ‘The Cross’
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- #49Hero and Leander
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- #50Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree
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- #51Holy Sonnet VII: At the Round Earth’s
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- #52HOLY SONNETS: Since she whom I lov’d hath paid her last debt
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- #53Hym To God, My God In My Sickness
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- #54Klockius
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- #55La Corona
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- #56Love’s Alchemy
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- #57Love’s Deity
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- #58Love’s Diet
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- #59Love’s Exchange
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- #60Love’s Growth
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- #61Love’s Infiniteness
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- #62Love’s Usury
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- #63Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
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- #64Negative Love
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- #65Niobe
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- #66Ode
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- #67On the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine Being Married on St. Valentine’s Day
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- #68On The Progress Of The Soul...
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- #69The Broken Heart
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- #70Phryne
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- #71Pyramus and Thisbe
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- #72Raderus
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- #73Ralphius
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- #74Ressurection
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- #75Resurrection, imperfect
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- #76Satire I
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- #77Satire II
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- #78Satire III
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- #79Satire IV
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- #80Satire V
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- #81Self-Love
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- #82Sonnet Cycle For Lady Magdalen
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- #83Sweetest Love, I do not go
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- #84That Time and Absence proves Rather helps than hurts to loves
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- #85The Annunciation And Passion
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- #86The Apparition
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- #87The Blossom
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- #88The Will
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- #89The Calm
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- #90The Computation
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- #91The Curse
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- #92The Damp
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- #93The Dissolution
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- #94
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- #95The Expiration
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- #96The Funeral
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- #97The Harbinger
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- #98The Indifferent
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- #99The Legacy
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- #100The Message
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- #101The Paradox
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- #102The Primrose
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- #103The Prohibition
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- #104The Relic
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- #105The Token
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- #106The Triple Fool
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- #107The Undertaking
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- #108Witchcraft By A Picture
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- #109To George Herbert,
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- #110TO MR. I. P.
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- #111To Mr. Rowland Woodward
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- #112TO Mr. Samuel Brooke
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- #113To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders
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- #114TO Mr.I.L.
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- #115TO Mr.T.W.
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- #116To Sir Henry Goodyere
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- #117To Sir Henry Wotton At His Going Ambassador To Venice
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- #118To Sir Henry Wotton II
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- #119To The Countess Of Bedford I
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- #120To The Countess Of Bedford II
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- #121To The Earl Of Doncaster
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- #122To The Lady Magdalen Herbert, Of St. Mary Magdalen
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- #123To The Praise Of The Dead And The Anatomy
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- #124Translated Out Of Gazaeus,
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- #125Twickenham Garden
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- #126Upon The Translation Of The Psalms By Sir Philip Sidney And The Countess Of Pembroke, His Sister
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- #127Valediction to his Book
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A Jet Ring Sent by John Donne
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A Jet Ring Sent is a poem about the brittle and broken union between two lovers. The speaker gives his lover a ‘jet ring’, however, she later breaks her faith and returns the ring to the speaker.
A Jet Ring Sent Annotated
Thou art not so black as my heart,
Nor half so brittle as her heart, thou art ;
What would'st thou say ? shall both our properties by thee be spoke,
—Nothing more endless, nothing sooner broke?
Marriage rings are not of this stuff ;
Oh, why should ought less precious, or less tough
Figure our loves ? except in thy name thou have bid it say,
'—I'm cheap, and nought but fashion ; fling me away.'
Yet stay with me since thou art come,
Circle this finger's top, which didst her thumb ;
Be justly proud, and gladly safe, that thou dost dwell with me ;
She that, O ! broke her faith, would soon break thee.