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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITHALAMION: 10. THE BRIDEGROOMES COMMING, by JOHN DONNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: As he that sees a starre fall, runs apace
Last Line: As freely, as each to each before, gave either eye or heart.
Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium
First Line: As he that sees a starre fall, runs apace
Last Line: As freely, as each to each before, gave either eye or heart.
Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium
As he that sees a starre fall, runs apace,
And findes a gellie in the place,
So doth the Bridegroome hast as much,
Being told this starre is falne, and findes her such.
And as friends may looke strange,
By a new fashion, or apparrells change,
Their soules, though long acquainted they had beene,
These clothes, their bodies, never yet had seene;
Therefore at first shee modestly might start,
But must forthwith surrender every part,
As freely, as each to each before, gave either eye or heart.
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