Poem by John Donne

Witchcraft by a Picture

I fix mine eye on thine, and there
Pity my picture burning in thine eye;
My picture drowned in a transparent tear,
When I look lower I espy.
Hadst thou the wicked skill
By pictures made and mard, to kill,
How many ways mightst thou perform thy will?

But now I have drunk thy sweet salt tears,
And though thou pour more I'll depart;
My picture vanished, vanish fears
That I can be endamaged by that art;
Though thou retain of me
One picture more, yet that will be,
Being in thine own heart, from all malice free. 

1. Temple
2. Oh My Blacke Soule! Now Thou Art Summoned
3. The Indifferent
4. Love’s Usury
5. Fall of a Wall

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