John Donne - Delphi Poets Series (106 page)

That this is my south-west discovery,

Per fretum febris
, by these straits to die.

Donne was the poet-geographer of himself, his mistresses, and his God. Other poets of his time dived deeper and soared to greater altitudes, but none travelled so far, so curiously, and in such out-of-the-way places, now hurrying like a nervous fugitive, and now in the exultation of the first man in a new found land.

St. Paul’s Cathedral, London — Donne’s final resting place

Donne’s grave