JOHN DONNE poem NO MAN IS AN ISLAND poetry Full English TEXT
John Donne
No man is an island
Meditation XVII
Poem
English literature
Full English text
No man is an island
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were,
as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were;
any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.
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John Donne – No man is an island
Meditation XVII, 1624, Poem
English literature – Full English text
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