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| An Apparition |
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| When by thy scorne o Murdresse I am dead |
| And that thou thinkst thee farr |
| ffrom all sollicitations by mee |
| Then shall my Ghost come to thy bedd |
| And thee (fond virgin)* in worse armes shall see |
| Then thy sick Taper will beginn to winke |
| And hee, whose thou art then, beeing tyr'd before |
| Will if thou stirr or pinch, to wake him, thinke |
| Thou callst for more |
| And in a false sleepe from thee shrink |
| And then poore Aspen wretch, neglected thou |
| Bathd in a cold quicksiluer sweate wilt lye |
| A veryer Ghost then I. |
| What I will say I will not tell thee now |
| Least that preserue thee, and since my loue is spent |
| I had rather thou shouldst paynefully repent |
| Then by my threatnings keepe thee innocent |
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| [Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] |