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No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne

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No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne
1631
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Topic
BeautyGraceAgingMiddle age
Statement type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Medium
Poem
Time
1631The Renaissance
Person
John Donne
Provenance
Current citation
Donne, John. "Elegy: The Autumnal." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 1.
Original citation
Donne, John. "Elegy IX: The Autumnal." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 1.

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