History & Politics
Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombra.
History & Politics
THE Cards you …are in Value rise,
So do the Wounded by your Eyes:
Who to Celestial things aspire,
Are by that Passion rais'd the higher.
Cite this poem
MLA
Waller, Edmund. “Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombra.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/waller/105/.
Chicago
Waller, Edmund. “Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombra.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/waller/105/.
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