When they succeed in achieving their goal of eternal happiness, they will demonstrate that they possess the rare gift of true love. John Donne immortalized his love in just nine verses, but pages and pages could be written on the meaning of these words and the fruits that arise from them. But the more words and the more precise the explanations of the ideals of true love become, the further the reader is from experiencing the truth. This is why John Donne resorted to metaphors and beautiful examples such as the “peaceful trepidation of the Spheres”, “the expansion of the golden thread” and “the union of a compass”, so that readers can better understand the love that John Donne and his wife