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Why, death, do you tarry so?
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Why, death, do you tarry so? Why does your chariot come so slow? Old age has prepared for me Every illness and complaint. What good are my hundred years?    If such pain I undergo—    Why, death…

Contributor:

Jacob Frances

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Aging, Body image, Health, Humor, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Popular Poetry, Poetry
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I have set this stone as a weight, not as a memorial, over my wife’s grave, lest (God forbid!) she rise from the dead and come back home.

Contributor:

Immanuel Frances

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Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Humor, Women, Body image, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Poetry

Categories:

Popular Poetry, Poetry