Poem by John Donne

Fall of a Wall

Under an undermined and shot-bruised wall
A too-bold captain perish'd by the fall,
Whose brave misfortune happiest men envied,
That had a town for tomb, his bones to hide. 

1. Holy Sonnet 17. Since She Whom I Loved
2. The Legacy
3. The Damp
4. The Indifferent
5. Temple

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