Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
GUANTE: Representing Centennial High School, this is
Andy Troska.
(applause)
ANDY TROSKA:
Lovers' Infiniteness By John Donne
If yet I have not all thy love, Dear, I shall never have it
all; I cannot breathe one other
sigh, to move, Nor can intreat one other tear
to fall; And all my treasure, which
should purchase thee- Sighs, tears, and oaths, and
letters-I have spent. Yet no more can be due to me,
Than at the bargain made was meant;
If then thy gift of love were partial,
That some to me, some should to others fall,
Dear, I shall never have thee all.
Or if then thou gavest me all, All was but all, which thou
hadst then; But if in thy heart, since,
there be or shall New love created be, by other
men, Which have their stocks entire,
and can in tears, In sighs, in oaths, and
letters, outbid me, This new love may beget new
fears, For this love was not vow'd by
thee. And yet it was, thy gift being
general; The ground, thy heart, is mine;
whatever shall Grow there, dear, I should have
it all. Yet I would not have all yet,
He that hath all can have no more;
And since my love doth every day admit
New growth, thou shouldst have new rewards in store;
Thou canst not every day give me thy heart,
If thou canst give it, then thou never gavest it;
Love's riddles are, that though thy heart depart,
It stays at home, and thou with losing savest it;
But we will have a way more liberal,
Than changing hearts, to join them; so we shall
Be one, and one another's all.