Monday, April 12, 2010

On A Candle Comments

Rating: 2.7

Of all inhabitants on earth,
To man alone I owe my birth,
And yet the cow, the sheep, the bee,
Are all my parents more than he:
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Jonathan Swift
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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 October 2023

Great satirical poem by Jonathan Swift. Congratulations being chosen as The Classic Poem of The day. TOP Marks for this poem

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Esselebor Ebhojie 06 October 2023

i sense a human and godlike personality, born of man and woman.quite captivating language

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Hayden Schulte 24 May 2018

this is good but you can do better

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Louis Newsome 24 May 2018

He makes phrases with whom few can compare. I will continue to read him for years.

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Britte Ninad 24 May 2018

Yet I perish in my prime, Seldom by the death of time; Die like lovers as they gaze, Die for those I live to please; ....... Nor warm the fair for whom I burn: ..... Die like all that look on you.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 24 May 2018

Such a great write by Jonathan Swift👍👍👍

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Robert Murray Smith 24 May 2018

An imaginative write.

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