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John Donne (1572-1631)

A Lame Begger


              1I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
              2To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: John Donne, Poems, by J. D. With elegies on the authors death (M. F. for J. Marriot, 1633). MICF no. 556 Robarts Library. Facs. edn. (Menston: Scolar Press, 1969). PR 2245 A2 1633A. STC 7045
First publication date: 1633
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 2RP 1.278.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/5

Composition date: 1590 - 1601
Form: Heroic Couplet
Rhyme: aa


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