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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VANITAS VANITATUM, FR. THE DEVIL'S CASE LAW, by JOHN WEBSTER Poet's Biography First Line: All the flowers of the spring Last Line: And weave but nets to catch the wind. Variant Title(s): All Is Vanity;dirge;the Burial Subject(s): Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Mortality; Burials | |||
ALL the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying; These have but their growing prime, And man does flourish but his time: Survey our progress from our birth -- We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites! Sweetest breath and clearest eye Like perfumes go out and die; And consequently this is done As shadows wait upon the sun. Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUNERAL SERMON by ANDREW HUDGINS RETURN FROM DELHI by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE SCATTERING OF EVAN JONES'S ASHES by GALWAY KINNELL BROWNING'S FUNERAL by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL |
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