Noelle for Chloe Harris

Love Him. Our novel Secrets of Sin is dedicated to John Donne. Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed is quoted in the HEA scene

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

I’ve been a little bit in love with John Donne (1572-1631) since I first read his poetry in my 10th-grade English class. There is nothing I can say which will be a better tribute than if I let him speak for himself.

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee 
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; 
For those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow, 
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. 

- from Holy Sonnet X

Our two souls therefore, which are one,  
    Though I must go, endure not yet  
A breach, but an expansion,  
    Like gold to aery thinness beat. 

If they be two, they are two so
    As stiff twin compasses are two ;  
Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show  
    To move, but doth, if th’ other do.

- from A Valediction Forbidding Mourning