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Quotation by Matthew Prior
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A Better Answer Poems (1718)A Letter to the Honourable Lady Miss Margaret Cavendish Holles-HarleyAlmaAnswer to Cloe JealousA Reasonable AfflictionRelated Subjects
youth (23) death (21) beauty (16) time (14) love (13) memory (10) wisdom (9) old age (9) religion (8) life (7)
Venus, take my votive glass:
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.
Matthew Prior (1664–1721), U.S. poet. The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus (l. 1–4). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
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