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AN EPITAPH UPON A VIRGIN by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE A SOLEMNE FAST WE KEEPE
Last Line: COWSLIPS FOR HER COVERING.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

Here a solemne Fast we keepe,
While all beauty lyes asleep
Husht be all things; (no noyse here)
But the toning of a teare:
Or a sigh of such as bring
Cowslips for her covering.



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