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Anne Killigrew

  • More rich, more noble I will ever hold / The Muses' laurel, than a crown of gold.

    • Anne Killigrew,
    • "Upon the Sayings That My Verses Were Made by Another," Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew ()
  • The bloody Wolf, the Wolf does not pursue; / The Boar, though fierce, his Tusk will not embrue / In his own kind, Bears, not on Bears do prey: / Thou art then, Man, more savage far than they.

    • Anne Killigrew,
    • "The Miseries of Man," Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew ()

Anne Killigrew, English poet

(1660 - 1685)