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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN ON A WALL AT WOODSTOCK, by ELIZABETH I Poet's Biography First Line: Oh fortune, thy wrestling wavering state Last Line: So god send to my foes all they have thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth Variant Title(s): Verses Written On A Shutter ... Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts | |||
Oh, Fortune! how thy restless wavering state Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit! Witness this present prison, whither fate Could bear me, and the joys I quit: Thou causedest the guilty to be loos'd From bands, wherein are innocents inclos'd: Causing the guiltless to be strait reserv'd, And freeing those that death had well deserv'd. But by her envy can be nothing wrought, So God send to my foes all they have thought. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SECULAR GAMES by RICHARD HOWARD WHAT DID YOU SEE? by FANNY HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN WORK IN PROGRESS by CHARLES MARTIN THE SUBCULTURE OF THE WRONGLY ACCUSED by THYLIAS MOSS ON MONSIEUR'S DEPARTURE by ELIZABETH I |
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