present when one approaches the poem with the proposed unambiguous jealousy. Empson does not hesitate to point out that he does not believe the poem to be absolutely "sincere" in its grief.
             An alternate reading of "A Valediction: of Weeping" might offer a more modern approach to the poem. In the first stanza, Donne begins with asking his lover to "Let me pour forth/My tears before thy face." He continues by using a metaphor wherein his lover is a stamping mill, which churns out coins (his tears) which bear her face. His lover has caused his grief and each tear he cries is marked by her influence, but at the same time they are coins, which carry a value to them beyond their own intrinsic
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