Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes is a prose work by the English metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England, John Donne, published in 1624.

It covers death, rebirth, and the Christian idea of sickness as a visit from God, reflecting internal sinfulness.

This short excerpt introduces the work and reflects upon some of its more famous passages.

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