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... As I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and by such slow degrees, I fold my arms as if they clasped a crook, And stretch my feet forth, straight as stone can point, And let the bed-clothes, for a mortcloth, drop Into great laps and folds of sculptor’s work.
... As I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and by such slow degrees, I fold my arms as if they clasped a crook, And stretch my feet forth, straight as stone can point, And let the bed-clothes, for a mortcloth, drop Into great laps and folds of sculptor’s work.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Robert Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 356 · printed citation: R. Browning (The Bishop orders his Tomb). · compiler notes excluded
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