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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EARTH'S IMMORTALITIES: FAME, by ROBERT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: See, as the prettiest graves will do in time
Last Line: Have softened down the crisp-cut name and date!
Subject(s): Fame; Reputation
First Line: See, as the prettiest graves will do in time
Last Line: Have softened down the crisp-cut name and date!
Subject(s): Fame; Reputation
FAME
SEE, as the prettiest graves will do in time,
Our poet's wants the freshness of its prime;
Spite of the sexton's browsing horse, the sods
Have struggled through its binding osier rods
Headstone and half-sunk footstone lean awry,
Wanting the brick-work promised by-and-by;
How the minute gray lichens, plate o'er plate,
Have softened down the crisp-cut name and date!
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