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Holy Sonnets
Holy Sonnet V

by John Donne

I am a little world made cunningly 
Of Elements, and an Angelike spright, 
But black sinne hath betraid to endlesse night 
My worlds both parts, and (oh) both parts must die. 
You which beyond that heaven which was most high 
Have found new sphears, and of new lands can write, 
Powre new seas in mine eyes, that so I might 
Drowne my world with my weeping earnestly, 
Or wash it if it must be drown'd no more: 
But oh it must be burnt! alas the fire 
Of lust and envie have burnt it heretofore, 
And made it fouler; Let their flames retire, 
And burne me Lord, with a fiery zeale 
Of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heale. 
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