Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EPITAPH UPON A MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Here she lies [lyes], in bed of spice
Last Line: Lightly, lightly ore the dead.
Variant Title(s): Upon A Maid
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Here she lyes (in Bed of Spice)
Faire as Eve in Paradice:
For her beauty it was such
Poets co'd not praise too much.
Virgins Come, and in a Ring
Her supreamest Requiem sing;
Then depart, but see ye tread
Lightly, lightly ore the dead.





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