Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstain'd with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content. Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Kill'd with report that old man eloquent; -- Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourish'd, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honour'd Margaret. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FIRE, FAMINE AND SLAUGHTER. A WAR ECLOGUE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE LUCY (1) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A LETTER TO HER HUSBAND by ANNE BRADSTREET THE NEW MOON by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ORPHAN BORN by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE |