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THE LAST MAN: ROSILY DYING by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES

Poet Analysis

First Line: I'LL TAKE THAT FAINTING ROSE
Last Line: AND GIVE TO ME THY PINK, RECLINING DEATH.
Subject(s): DEATH; FLOWERS; REVENGE; ROSES; DEAD, THE;
I'LL take that fainting rose
Out of his breast; perhaps some sigh of his,
Lives in the gyre of its kiss-coloured leaves.
O pretty rose, hast thou thy flowery passions
Then put thyself into a scented rage,
And breathe on me some poisonous revenge.
For it was I, thou languid, silken blush,
Who orphaned thy green family of thee,
In their closed infancy: therefore receive
My life, and spread it on thy shrunken petals,
And give to me thy pink, reclining death.



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