{"id":227,"date":"2010-02-22T22:14:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T22:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:56:11","slug":"death-be-not-proud-a-poem-by-john-donne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/death-be-not-proud-a-poem-by-john-donne\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Be Not Proud &#8211; a poem by John Donne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/donne.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228 lazyload\" title=\"donne\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/donne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"240\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 197px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 197\/240;\" \/><\/a>John Donne (1572-1631)<\/p>\n<p>Death Be Not Proud? by John Donne<\/p>\n<p>Death be not proud, though some have called thee<br \/>\nMighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,<br \/>\nFor, those, whom thou think&#8217;st, thou dost overthrow,<br \/>\nDie not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.<br \/>\nFrom rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,<br \/>\nMuch pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,<br \/>\nAnd soonest our best men with thee doe goe,<br \/>\nRest of their bones, and soules deliverie.<br \/>\nThou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,<br \/>\nAnd dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,<br \/>\nAnd poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,<br \/>\nAnd better then thy stroake; why swell&#8217;st thou then?<br \/>\nOne short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,<br \/>\nAnd death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Donne (1572-1631)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1500s","category-death-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}