When my grave is broke up again, / Some second guest to entertain, / (For graves have learn'd that woman-head, / To be to more than one a bed.
-- Speaker (Lines 1 – 4)

Importance: These are the first lines of the poem, and they feature the speaker imagining a world in the near future when his grave is broken open to place another body. He compares graves to women's beds, which he declares are often also home to more than one guest. This aside is significant because it immediately introduces an erotic element to the poem, which is characteristic of Donne's poetry wherein the spiritual and the erotic are often one and the same.

Will he not let'us alone, / And think that there a loving couple lies, / Who thought that this device might be some way / To make their souls at the last busy day / Meet at this grave, and make a little stay?
-- Speaker (Lines 7 – 11)

Importance: Here, the speaker wonders...