373. The Ecstasy by John Donne
b"J Donne read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Ecstasy\\nby John Donne (1572 \\u2013 1631)\\n\\nWhere, like a pillow on a bed,\\n A pregnant bank swell'd up, to rest\\nThe violet's reclining head,\\n Sat we two, one another's best. \\n\\nOur hands were firmly cemented\\n By a fast balm which thence did spring;\\nOur eye-beams twisted, and did thread\\n Our eyes upon one double string. \\n\\nSo to engraft our hands, as yet\\n Was all the means to make us one;\\nAnd pictures in our eyes to get\\n Was all our propagation. \\n\\nAs 'twixt two equal armies Fate\\n Suspends uncertain victory,\\nOur souls\\u2014which to advance their state\\n Were gone out\\u2014hung 'twixt her and me. \\n\\nAnd whilst our souls negotiate there,\\n We like sepulchral statues lay;\\nAll day the same our postures were,\\n And we said nothing, all the day.\\n\\nFirst aired: 14 December 2007\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008"