'Batter My Heart' Essay Quotes Flashcards
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“Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you/ As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;”
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“That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend/ Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.”
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“I, like a usurped town, to another due,/ Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end;”
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“Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,/ But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.”
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“Yet dearly I love you, and would be fain,/ But am betrothed unto your enemy;/ Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,”
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“Take me to you, imprison me, for I,/ Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,/ Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.”
