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ADVICE TO COLONEL VALENTINE by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES

Poet Analysis

First Line: TO FALL IN LOVE, THOUGH CLASSICALLY HUMAN
Last Line: EVEN IF A FOOLISH GIRL, NOT YET FULL GROWN, %CONFRONTS YOU WITH A SCARCELY DECENT PASSION
Subject(s): AGING; LOVE - AGE DIFFERENCES;

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS; SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORKER.
  (1969)
 



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