Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If modest youth, with cool reflection crown'd Last Line: Pays the last tribute of a saint to heav'n. | ||||||||
(WHO DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735) If modest Youth, with cool Reflection crown'd, And ev'ry opening Virtue blooming round, Could save a Mother's justest Pride from fate, Or add one Patriot to a sinking state; This weeping marble had not ask'd thy Tear, Or sadly told, how many Hopes lie here! The living Virtue now had shone approv'd, The Senate heard him, and his Country lov'd. Yet softer Honours, and less noisy Fame Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham: In whom a Race, for Courage fam'd and Art, Ends in the milder Merit of the Heart; And Chiefs or Sages long to Britain giv'n, Pays the last Tribute of a Saint to Heav'n. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HYMN WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST by ALEXANDER POPE AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM by ALEXANDER POPE AN ESSAY ON MAN by ALEXANDER POPE COWLEY: THE GARDEN by ALEXANDER POPE ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY by ALEXANDER POPE ELOISA TO ABELARD by ALEXANDER POPE EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG by ALEXANDER POPE EPIGRAM ON QUEEN CAROLINE'S DEATHBED by ALEXANDER POPE EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE 1 by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO MRS. BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE by ALEXANDER POPE |
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