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DEATH OF THE DAY by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Poet Analysis

First Line: MY PICTURES BLACKEN IN THEIR FRAMES
Last Line: AWAY HE BORE.
Subject(s): CONSOLATION; DEATH; DEAD, THE;
My pictures blacken in their frames
As night comes on,
And youthful maids and wrinkled dames
Are now all one.
Death of the day! a sterner Death
Did worse before;
The fairest form, the sweetest breath,
Away he bore.




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