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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
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EPIGRAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poet's Biography
First Line: One queen artemisia, as old stories tell
Last Line: Not to show her respect, but to save the expense!
Subject(s): Funerals; Marriage
First Line: One queen artemisia, as old stories tell
Last Line: Not to show her respect, but to save the expense!
Subject(s): Funerals; Marriage
One Queen Artemisia, as old stories tell,
When deprived of her husband she loved so well,
In respect for the love and affection he show'd her,
She reduc'd him to dust and she drank up the powder.
But Queen Netherplace, of a diff'rent complexion,
When called on to order the fun'ral direction,
Would have eat her dead lord, on a slender pretence,
Not to show her respect, but to save the expense!
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ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER
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