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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne

Poem

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne
1631
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Beauty fadesBeautyFading loveLove
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Time
1631The Renaissance
Person
John Donne
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Current citation
Donne, John. "Elegy: The Anagram." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 27.
Original citation
Donne, John. "Elegy II: The Anagram." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 27.

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