"Come live with me and be my love" is the impetuous beginning of a song that John Donne wrote in about twenty years. He composed many songs for friends and friends you love, some to be sung on the lute. Love-songs, spiteful, angry, erotic. In 1621, became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, preacher and theologian, visionary and tragic, forgot the happy testimonies of passionate youth, and only after death was possible to publish in Songs and Sonnets. Here we have collected twenty, chosen from among the most daring and exciting, typically directed at a woman, "O my America! My Terra Nova, "imperiously called to share a great love unfathomable and mysterious in its closed room.