Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOLY SONNET: TEMPLE, by JOHN DONNE


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First Line: With his kind mother who partakes thy woe
Last Line: By miracles exceeding power of man.
Variant Title(s): Jesus In The Temple;la Corona: 4. Temple;temple
Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology


With his kinde mother who partakes thy woe,
Joseph turne backe; see where your child doth sit,
Blowing, yea blowing out those sparks of wit,
Which himselfe on the Doctors did bestow;
The Word but lately could not speake, and loe,
It sodenly speakes wonders, whence comes it,
That all which was, and all which should be writ,
A shallow seeming child, should deeply know?
His Godhead was not soule to his manhood,
Nor had time mellowed him to this ripenesse,
But as for one which hath a long taske, 'tis good,
With the Sunne to beginne his businesse,
He in his ages morning thus began
By miracles exceeding power of man.





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