Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO LAURELS, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: A funeral stone / or verse I covet none
Last Line: As the eternall monument of me.
Subject(s): Monuments


A funerall stone,
Or Verse I covet none
But onely crave
Of you, that I may have
A sacred Laurel springing from my grave:
Which being seen,
Blest with perpetuall greene,
May grow to be
Not so much call'd a tree,
As the eternall monument of me.





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