Piercy’s “Simple Song” and Donne’s “A Lecture upon the Shadow”: Human George Elliot said, “What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories.” Both Marge Piercy’s “Simple Song” and John Donne’s “A Lecture upon the Shadow” focus on the human desire to have someone to love and all the obstacles that ....