by John Donne (1572 - 1631)
Moist with one drop (resurrection)
Language: English
Moist with one drop of Thy blood, my dry soul Shall - though she now be in extreme degree Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly - be Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard or foul, And life by this death abled shall control Death, whom Thy death slew ; nor shall to me Fear of first or last death bring misery, If in thy life-book my name thou enroll. Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified, But made that there, of which, and for which it was ; Nor can by other means be glorified. May then sin's sleep and death soon from me pass, That waked from both, I again risen may Salute the last and everlasting day.
Authorship:
- by John Donne (1572 - 1631) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "Moist with one drop (resurrection)", op. 89 no. 6 (1993), from La Corona, no. 6. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Victoria Brago
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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