OF gentle Blood, his Parents only Treasure, Their lasting Sorrow and their vanish'd Pleasure, Adorn'd with Features, Virtues, Wit, and Grace, A large Provision for so short a Race: More mod'rate Gifts might have prolong'd his Date, Too early fitted for a better State: But, knowing Heav'n his Home, to shun Delay He leap'd o'er Age, and took the shortest Way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOD AND MY COUNTRY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WILLOW POEM by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS PISCATAQUA RIVER by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH CATARINA TO CAMOENS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING LESSER EPISTLES: TO A YOUNG LADY WITH SOME LAMPREYS by JOHN GAY LINES COMPOSED AT GRASMERE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |