Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DEATH OF THE DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR



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First Line: My pictures blacken in their frames
Last Line: Away he bore.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


My pictures blacken in their frames
As night comes on,
And youthful maids and wrinkled dames
Are now all one.
Death of the day! a sterner Death
Did worse before;
The fairest form, the sweetest breath,
Away he bore.






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