Dictionary
Thesaurus
Word Dynamo
Quotes
Reference
Translator
Spanish
Log In
Sign Up
Premium
The Hot Word
Daily Crossword
Word Games
Crossword Solver
Tools
Mobile
Android
iPad
iPhone
More Apps...
Copy & paste this link to your blog or website to reference this page
Quotation by John Donne
More Quotes From
John Donne
(100)
Additional Sources
A Burnt Ship
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany
A Hymn to God the Father
Air and Angels
A Lecture upon the Shadow
Related Subjects
marriage
(75)
death
(53)
beauty
(40)
men and women
(37)
women
(37)
friendship
(34)
hate
(33)
sex
(31)
separation
(30)
friends
(28)
Love must not be, but take a body too,
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love aske, and now
That it assume thy body, I allow,
And fixe it selfe in thy lip, eye, and brow.
Love_must_not_be_but_take_a_body
http://quotes.dictionary.com/Love_must_not_be_but_take_a_body
Share
John Donne
John Donne (1572–1631), British poet. Air and Angels (l. 10–14). . .
The Complete English Poems [John Donne]. A. J. Smith, ed. (1971) Penguin Books.
Cite this source
Embed this quotation
Surprise me with a
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Partners:
Word
Bloglines
Citysearch
The Daily Beast
Ask Answers
Ask Kids
Life123
Reference
Sendori
Copyright ©
2013
Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
About
PRIVACY POLICY
Terms
API
Careers
Advertise with Us
Contact Us
Suggest a Word
Help