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John Donne (1572-1631)

Fall of a Wall


              1Under an undermin'd and shot-bruis'd wall
              2A too-bold captain perish'd by the fall,
              3Whose brave misfortune happiest men envi'd,
              4That had a town for tomb, his bones to hide.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Donne, John. The Satires, Epigrams and Verse Letters of John Donne. Edited by W. Milgate. London: Oxford University Press, 1967: 51.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire, assisted by Ana Berdinskikh
RP edition: 2009
Recent editing: 1:2009/7/20

Form: quatrain
Rhyme: aabb


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