{"id":3681,"date":"2007-04-06T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:16:53","slug":"wooing-with-insect-based-love-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/06\/wooing-with-insect-based-love-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooing With Insect-Based Love Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Donne, &#8220;The Flea&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>MARK but this flea, and mark in this,<br \/>\nHow little that which thou deniest me is;<br \/>\nIt suck&#8217;d me first, and now sucks thee,<br \/>\nAnd in this flea our two bloods mingled be.<br \/>\nThou know&#8217;st that this cannot be said<br \/>\nA sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet this enjoys before it woo,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And pamper&#8217;d swells with one blood made of two;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And this, alas! is more than we would do.<\/p>\n<p>O stay, three lives in one flea spare,<br \/>\nWhere we almost, yea, more than married are.<br \/>\nThis flea is you and I, and this<br \/>\nOur marriage bed, and marriage temple is.<br \/>\nThough parents grudge, and you, we&#8217;re met,<br \/>\nAnd cloister&#8217;d in these living walls of jet.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Though use make you apt to kill me,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Let not to that self-murder added be,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.<\/p>\n<p>Cruel and sudden, hast thou since<br \/>\nPurpled thy nail in blood of innocence?<br \/>\nWherein could this flea guilty be,<br \/>\nExcept in that drop which it suck&#8217;d from thee?<br \/>\nYet thou triumph&#8217;st, and say&#8217;st that thou<br \/>\nFind&#8217;st not thyself nor me the weaker now.<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis true ; then learn how false fears be;<br \/>\nJust so much honour, when thou yield&#8217;st to me,<br \/>\nWill waste, as this flea&#8217;s death took life from thee.<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, calling a woman flea-bitten has always worked for me.<\/p>\n<p>(More John Donne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/sevenlit\/donne\/donnebib.htm\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Donne, &#8220;The Flea&#8221;: MARK but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; It suck&#8217;d me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou know&#8217;st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet this enjoys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18168,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/18168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}