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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH ON MASTER PHILIP GRAY, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, stay / and if I had no more to say Last Line: What surety of life have thou, and I? | |||
Reader, stay, And if I had no more to say But here doth lie till the last day All that is left of Philip Gray, It might thy patience richly pay: For, if such men as he could die, What surety of life have thou, and I? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME] by BEN JONSON A NYMPH'S PASSION by BEN JONSON A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY MARY WROTH by BEN JONSON AN ODE TO HIMSELF by BEN JONSON ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?' by BEN JONSON EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS by BEN JONSON EPIGRAM: 118. ON GUT by BEN JONSON |
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