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DAVIDS ELEGIE UPON JONATHAN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: What name of comfort can returne Last Line: Thy love, as thou, was masculine. Subject(s): Love; Masculinity (Psychology); Mourning; Bereavement | ||||||||
WHAT Name of Comfort can returne My Heart to mee! Deare Freind in Thee My life is dead, my Joy doth mourne. O Jonathan, my Reverend Mother, (Though fertile Shee,) Ne'r blessed Mee With halfe so sweet & deare a Brother. Delicious, Freind, wert Thou to Mee; Engaddies Bed Did never spread Perfumes so rich & sweet as Thee. Thy love to Mee, my Jonathan, (Heart spare to break Before I speak) Thy love knew no Comparison. Weak Woman's Love, esteem'd wth thine, Though stout before, Grew faint & poore; Thy Love, as Thou, was Masculine. | Other Poems of Interest...DISTANT RAINFALL by ROBINSON JEFFERS HUNGERFIELD by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE MOURNER by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN HECUBA MOURNS by MARILYN NELSON THERE IS NO GOD BUT by AGHA SHAHID ALI IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE by FRANK BIDART |
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