Donne

"They who one another keepe
Alive, ne'r parted bee."

The most beautiful lines of metaphysical poetry I have ever read (ok, so maybe it's not ALOT).

Earlier in the sonnet, Donne does make substantial reference to the spectre of death. What struck me as significant was how "Alive" is here used to counter death and Destiny, with the affirmative "ne'r parted bee", a proclamation to the forces of mortality that love overcomes all.

Sweet.