No Man Is an Island by John Donne

Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind.

No Man Is an Island

by John Donne ¹

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No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were.

Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

1. Source: www.allpoetry.com (Originally published in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my sicknes 1624, Stationers’ Company)