The Canonization by John Donne

This poem seems to be just as good as John's first poem we read. The way I take the poem is the speaker talks to someone who disapproves of the speaker's love affair with his lover. The speaker tells that person to be quiet (hold your tongue) or to criticize the speaker for something other than love. The speaker states that he's done no harm or foul by loving and that things would be the same whether he loved the person or if he didn't love the person. Their love must be very strong because the speaker states that if they can't live with their love then they'll die with it.
The speaker also hopes that these poems of him and his lover will "canonize" them, I take it that he means they will never be forgotten cause these poems will always be read. (we're reading them some 300 years after they were written) The speaker believes he's the saint of love and hopes that lovers of the future will look to this poem for guidance.

-Vincent V.