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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON TIMELY DEATH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it not better at an early hour
Last Line: Than sit the fire out and go starv'd to bed?
Variant Title(s): On Living Too Long
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: Is it not better at an early hour
Last Line: Than sit the fire out and go starv'd to bed?
Variant Title(s): On Living Too Long
Subject(s): Mortality
Is it not better at an early hour
In its calm cell to rest the weary head,
While birds are singing and while blooms the bower,
Than sit the fire out and go starv'd to bed?
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