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HOW MARIGOLDS CAME YELLOW by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: JEALOUS GIRLS THESE SOMETIMES WERE
Last Line: YELLOW, MARKT FOR JEALOUSIE.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; JEALOUSY; MARIGOLDS;
Jealous Girles these sometimes were,
while they liv'd, or lasted here:
Turn'd to Flowers, still they be
Yellow, markt for Jealousie.



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