John Donne

A British author of many “Holy Sonnets”.

“Death, be not proud”

“Rest and sleep” are mere “pictures” of death. “Some have called” death “Mighty and dreadful” but “thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desparate men.”

“Batter my heart, three-personed God”

He compares himself to “an usurp’d town to another due” and complains that he’s “betrothed unto your enemy.”