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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SMITH: MR. SMITH IS DEAD, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Ascend, my muse, on sorrow's sable plume
Last Line: The blood-stained tomb where smith and comfort lie.
Subject(s): Blood; Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: Ascend, my muse, on sorrow's sable plume
Last Line: The blood-stained tomb where smith and comfort lie.
Subject(s): Blood; Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness
ASCEND, my Muse, on Sorrow's sable plume,
Let the soft number meet the swelling sigh;
With laureated chaplets deck the tomb,
The blood-stained tomb where Smith and comfort lie.
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