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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death! Thou such a one hast smit Last Line: If he be dead or flown away. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death - Children; Tuberculosis; Death - Babies; Consumption (pathology) | |||
ON A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION. DEATH! thou such a one hast smit, Any stone can cover it; 'Twas an envy more than sin, If he had not been a twin, To have kill'd him, when his herse Hardly could contain a verse. Two fair sisters, sweet and young, Minded as a prophet's tongue, Thou hadst kill'd, and since with thee Goodness had no amity: Nor could tears of parents save So much sweetness from the grave; Sickness seem'd so small to fit him, That thou should'st not see to hit him; And thou canst not truly say, If he be dead or flown away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IMMORALIST by NORMAN DUBIE THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA by NORMAN DUBIE THE CONSUMPTIVE by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY CONSUMPTION by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL CURE PORCHES by MARGOT SCHILPP INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY THE CONSUMPTIVE GIRL; FROM A PICTURE by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY THE CONSUMPTIVE by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON THE CONSUMPTIVE by ROSALIND TRAVERS EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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