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Yet strive so , that before age , death's twilight , Thy soul rest , for none can work in that night . Donne turned to further study of divinity and after reaching the conclusion that " reason is our soul's left hand , faith her right ...
Yet strive so , that before age , death's twilight , Thy soul rest , for none can work in that night . Donne turned to further study of divinity and after reaching the conclusion that " reason is our soul's left hand , faith her right ...
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10 Death , be not proud , though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful , for thou art not so ; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not , poor Death , nor yet canst thou kill me . From rest and sleep , which but thy ...
10 Death , be not proud , though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful , for thou art not so ; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not , poor Death , nor yet canst thou kill me . From rest and sleep , which but thy ...
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Why then at death do weary mortals weep ? Sleep's but a shorter death ; death's but a longer sleep . 7 And now the world , and dreams themselves , were drowned In deadly sleep ; the laborer snorteth fast , His brawny arms unbent ...
Why then at death do weary mortals weep ? Sleep's but a shorter death ; death's but a longer sleep . 7 And now the world , and dreams themselves , were drowned In deadly sleep ; the laborer snorteth fast , His brawny arms unbent ...
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Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND | 1 |
JOHN DONNE | 21 |
BEN JONSON | 76 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century |
| Editor | Roberta Florence Brinkley |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Norton, 1942 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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