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Robert Herrick
Herrick was superficially a good deal like his near-contemporary George Herbert: a poet and clergyman educated at Cambridge. But, markedly unlike the pious and saintly Herbert, Herrick was much better at
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Delight in Disorder
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distractión;
5An erring lace, which here and there
Enthralls the crimson stomacher;
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbons to flow confusèdly;
A winning wave, deserving note,
Poetry Trivia
Question:
Whose brain was dropped on the floor, once he had died and left it to science?
AnswerWalt Whitman's. Thomas Lux has written a poem about it "Walt Whiman's Brain Dropped on Laboratory Floor."
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