Notes of Good Morrow by John Donne

Notes of Good Morrow by John Donne 

The poet is talking about the time period before falling in love. What they have been doing before falling in love was nothing like fantasies. He is swearing by his faith while saying all this. What we did before. We might be satisfied with our childish pleasures like sucking the mother’s milk and have been enjoying the other joys of nature. I think we have been sleeping all the years like the seven sleepers who slept in the cave.  I ever any beauty I have seen, it was nothing but a dream of you.

The difference between time period of falling in love and after the falling in love is being described. After falling in love the whole thinking has been changed. Now after in love the poet is saying that we have awakened our souls and say good morrow to our souls. Our souls are watching each other not out of fear but out of love. Our love stops us to engage in anything else other than love. The small cottage of love is better than the whole world.  Let the navigators roam over the seas to discover new worlds, let the maps show new worlds, but we posses only one world, the world of love, you are mine and me is yours.

Both the lovers are seeing each other and their faces are being reflected in each other eyes which mean that their hearts are pure and faithful. Both the lovers constitutes one world, One lover is one hemisphere while other is other hemisphere. The poet is saying that where can we find the hemisphere better than us without North and without West. Our love is alike, similar in all respect, so no one will die.