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Ah woe is me, woe, woe is me,
Alack and welladay!
For pity, sir, find out that bee
Which bore my love away.
- Robert Herrick
Attribution: Robert Herrick (1591–1674), British poet. The Mad Maid’s Song (l. 9–12). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).

Categories: Loss, Love, Madness

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