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Poem: Musing

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John Donne and Contemporary Poetry

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Dear Melissa—daughter of Deborah, Hebrew for bee, From dbr, linked to words for truth and word— Whose own name glows

Seven Poems

Here is no penance, much less innocence.

(Donne, Elegie XIX).

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Yenser, S. (2017). Poem: Musing. In: Herz, J. (eds) John Donne and Contemporary Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55300-9_13

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