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VENUS AND DEATH by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WITH FETTERS GOLD HER CAPTIVATED FEET
Last Line: LEST HE DEVOUR HER AND HER GODLETS BOTH!
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

WITH fetters gold her captivated feet
Lay, sunny sweet;
In that palm was the poppy, Sleep; in this
The apple, Bliss;
Against the Mild side of his Spouse and Mother
One small God throve, and in't, meseem'd, another.
By these a Death-in-Life did foully breathe
Out of a face that was one grate of teeth.
Lift, O kind Angels, lift her eyelids loth,
Lest he devour her and her Godlets both!



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