Virtue | Helen Vendler
In the following essay, Vendler compares "Virtue" with other poets' rewrites of Herbert's original and analyzes the original in an effort to understand the pattern of Herbert's thought in writing it.
Helen Vendler
In the following essay, Vendler compares "Virtue" with other poets' rewrites of Herbert's original and analyzes the original in an effort to understand the pattern of Herbert's thought in writing it.
Vertue
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridall of the earth and skie:
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,
For thou must die.
Sweet rose, whose hue, angrie and brave,
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye:
Thy root is ever in its grave,
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