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THE HOURE-GLASSE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: THAT HOURE-GLASSE, WHICH THERE YE SEE
Last Line: DO RESTLESS RUN WHEN THEY ARE DEAD.
Subject(s): HOURGLASSES;

That Houre-glasse, which there ye see
With Water fill'd, (Sirs, credit me)
The humour was, (as I have read)
But Lovers tears inchristalled,
Which, as they drop by drop doe passe
From th' upper to the under-glasse,
Do in a trickling manner tell,
(By many a watrie syllable)
That Lovers tears in life-time shed,
Do restless run when they are dead.



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