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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO STELLA, SELECTION, by CHARLES JENNER Poet's Biography
First Line: From every pleasure we forgo
Last Line: "but we escape the thorn!"
Subject(s): Consolation
First Line: From every pleasure we forgo
Last Line: "but we escape the thorn!"
Subject(s): Consolation
"From every pleasure we forgo
Some comfort's surely born.
Have they the rose? Why, maybe so!
But we escape the thorn!"
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