Overview of the events of 1648 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1648 in poetry
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
- Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
- To-morrow will be dying.
— First lines from Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, first published this year
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Deaths
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- January 14 – Caspar Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle (born 1584), Dutch humanist polymath, theologian, poet and historian
- c. February 20 – Tirso de Molina (born 1571), Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet
- May 26 – Vincent Voiture (born 1597), French poet and writer
- May 28 (bur.) – William Percy (born 1570/4), English poet and playwright
- August 20 – Edward Herbert (born 1583), Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
- November 17 (bur.) – Thomas Ford (born 1580), English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet
- Leon of Modena, also known as: (Judah) Leon(e) Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (born 1571), rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and Hebrew-language poet[5]
- Syed Sultan (born 1550), Bengali poet