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TO THE LADY CREW, UPON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHY, MADAM, WILL YE LONGER WEEP
Last Line: TO SPRING AGAINE ANOTHER YEARE.
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; DEATH - BABIES;
Why, Madam, will ye longer weep,
When as your Baby's lull'd asleep?
And (pretty Child) feeles now no more
Those paines it lately felt before.
All now is silent; groanes are fled:
Your Child lyes still, yet is not dead:
But rather like a flower hid here
To spring againe another yeare.



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