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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORMA BONUM FRAGILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poet's Biography
First Line: What a frail thing is beauty! Says baron le cras
Last Line: She dropped the eye, and broke it.
Subject(s): Anger; Beauty; Eyes
First Line: What a frail thing is beauty! Says baron le cras
Last Line: She dropped the eye, and broke it.
Subject(s): Anger; Beauty; Eyes
WHAT a frail thing is beauty! says Baron Le Cras,
Perceiving his mistress had one eye of glass;
And scarcely had he spoke it;
When she more confused as more angry she grew,
By a negligent rage proved the maxim too true:
She dropped the eye, and broke it.
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