Question

The dead speaker accuses his “murderess” of feigning this quality in John Donne’s poem “The Apparition.” The speaker of a poem set on “The Blooming Morne” claims a thousand people with this trait “Spring, sooner than the Lark, to fetch in May.” The speaker of a poem addressed to people with this trait notes, “The glorious lamp of heaven, (15[1])the sun, / The higher he’s a-getting.” The speaker warns that (*) “worms shall try” this “long-preserved” trait of the addressee of “To His Coy Mistress.” People with this trait title a poem that warns, “This same flower that smiles today / Tomorrow will be dying.” For 10 points, name these people, who are told to “gather ye rose-buds while ye may” in a Robert Herrick poem addressed to these people, “to Make Much of Time.” ■END■

ANSWER: virginity [or word forms like virgin; accept vestal; accept “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”]
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