...let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears, 10 Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent.1...

...disasters to be evils inflicted on humankind by an omnipotent deity. As John Donne said, "Moving of the earth brings harms and fears. Men reckon what it did and meant." With Rousseau, according to Susan Neiman, the idea that natural disasters were God's punishment for...

...us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings...lovers' love — Whose soul is sense — cannot admit Of absence, 'cause it doth remove The thing which elemented it. Inter-assured of the mind, Care less,...

...OF INNOCENCE An Homage to A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne Movers of earth bring harm and fears; Men reckon what it did and meant, But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Though some came and some went, The Heaven's the greater having sent Us a world ... in a time of innocence....