|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Heroes and kings! Your distance keep
Last Line: Let horace blush, and virgil too.
Subject(s): Twickenham, England; Westminster Abbey
First Line: Heroes and kings! Your distance keep
Last Line: Let horace blush, and virgil too.
Subject(s): Twickenham, England; Westminster Abbey
HEROES and kings! your distance keep,
In peace let one poor poet sleep,
Who never flattered folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by JOHN BETJEMAN
ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY by JOHN DRYDEN
ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALFRED TENNYSON
ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT [IN WESTMINSTER] by SAMUEL WESLEY
IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
POET'S CORNER by ALFRED AUSTIN
IN POET'S CORNER by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE
A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715 by ALEXANDER POPE