Front | John Wilmot - A Song (Absent from thee) Explore: 'Absent from thee I languish still, Then as me not, when I return? The straying Fool 'twill plainly kill, To wish all Day, all Night to Mourn' x3 |
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Back | •Lexical set of death and suffering 'languish' 'kill' •'straying' expresses sentimental attachment to addresse •although the weight of his conflicting sadness is undermined by the poet being a Cavalier, typically reckless and self-centred. On the other hand, he has written apparently sincere poems. |
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