Death Be Not Proud
Death is addressed to its face and told it has been overrated — some have called it mighty and dreadful, but it is not so, and those it thinks it overthrows do not die. The demolition is conducted point by point, in the manner of a courtroom: rest and sleep are its pictures and give pleasure, it keeps company with poison, war and sickness, it is slave to fate and chance and kings, and poppy or charms can put a man out just as well. Tenth of the Holy Sonnets, written around 1609, six years before Donne took orders, it argues down the fear of dying rather than consoling anyone about it.
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