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Phineas Fletcher (8 April 1582 – 13 December 1650) was an English poet, elder son of Dr Giles Fletcher, and brother of Giles the Younger. He was born at Cranbrook, Kent, and was baptized on 8 April 1582.

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Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

Brought, Doth, Eye, Fear, Peace, Wet

Love's tongue is in the eyes.

Anniversary, Eye, Eyes, Love, Tongue

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

Fear, Joy, Joys, Swim, Swims, World

Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

Addresses, Drags, Long, Open, Panegyric, Praise

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.

Beautiful, Beauty, Clothed, Unclothed

Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.

Best Love, Changed, Like, Love, Love Is, Sweeter

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

Dirge, Dying, Life, Pierce, Swans, Years

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