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To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything
by Robert Herrick
Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be;
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free,
As in the whole world thou canst find,
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- 01/28/1974 - Ramsey Nasr - Dutch author and poet
- 01/28/1924 - Marcel Broodthaers - Belgian painter and poet (d. 1976)
- 01/28/1886 - Marthe Bibesco - Romanian-French author and poet (d. 1973)
- 01/28/1885 - Vahan Terian - Armenian poet and activist (d. 1920)
- 01/28/1843 - Mihkel Veske - Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1890)
- 01/28/1726 - Christian Felix Weiße - German poet and playwright (d. 1802)
- 01/28/1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel - German poet and critic (d. 1749)
- 01/28/1582 - John Barclay - French-Scottish poet and author (d. 1621)
Deaths on this day in history
- 01/28/2014 - Nigel Jenkins - Welsh poet
- 01/28/1996 - Joseph Brodsky - Russian-American poet and essayist
- 01/28/1976 - Marcel Broodthaers - Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)
- 01/28/1953 - Neyzen Tevfik - Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
- 01/28/1939 - W. B. Yeats - Irish poet and playwright
- 01/28/1930 - Emmy Destinn - Czech soprano and poet (b. 1878)