Listen to the attached file, "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt" by MeWithoutYou. He begins reciting John Donne's "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" at 2:45 minutes.
This is Donne recited with more -- or perhaps different emotion -- than I recited him with for you in class.
Enjoy!
everything_was_beautiful_and_nothing_hurt_me_without_you_album_version.mp3 |
I heard you call for me
I saw you die for me
If only you'd burn for me
If only you'd come for me
I heard you call for me
If only you'd die for me
I saw you burn for me
If only you'd come for me
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
"As we melt let's make no noise
oh the profanation of our love
to tell the world our passing joys!
And we, besides, care less to miss
our eyes and lips and hands."
(but honey, I'm not who you think I am!)
"And so you'll be to me
who must obliquely run
"thy firmness makes my circle just,
and makes me end where I begun"
There's nothing wrong
as I'll be somewhere singing all along."
(no! tell me, where have you gone, my love.)