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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. 



John Donne


John Donne's other poems:
  1. Holy Sonnet 8. If faithful souls be alike glorified
  2. Holy Sonnet 12. Why are we by all creatures waited on?
  3. Holy Sonnet 5. I am a little world made cunningly
  4. Holy Sonnet 9. If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
  5. Holy Sonnet 13. What if this present were the world's last night?


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