Thomas Carew (1594–1640) English poet
Disdain Returned, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.”
Ariel, Act I, scene ii.
The Tempest (1611)
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