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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BABY'S EPITAPH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: April, made me: winter laid me here away asleep
Last Line: Here I sleep not: pass, and weep not here upon your child.
Subject(s): April; Babies; Death; Epitaphs; Infants; Dead, The


A CRETAN MERCHANT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here brotachus from cretan gortyn lies
Last Line: He did not come for this, but merchandise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Epitaphs


A DEDICATION, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes youth comes to age and asks a
Last Line: Of such are you; and what is youth but this?
Subject(s): Epitaphs


A FAMILY FAVORITE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies a cat of local fame
Last Line: All pure and beautiful.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Comedy; Death; Epitaphs; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas


A NAMELESS EPITAPH (1), by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This sentence have I left behind
Last Line: Are god's worst portion to mankind.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


A NAMELESS EPITAPH (2), by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ask not my name, o friend!
Last Line: Remember each unto the end.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


A POET'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou a statesman [or, statist], in the van
Last Line: Or build thy house upon this grave.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


A POOR NATURAL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lieth a poor natural
Last Line: Wherein to attire a natural.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE TWO CLOWNS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: - synthetic clown-clown, hip hip, whirl!
Last Line: That he could not whirl a hurricane.
Subject(s): Clowns; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


A TOMBLESS EPITAPH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis true, idoloclastes satyrane
Last Line: Thoughtful, with quiet tears upon his cheek.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ALICE HEW, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep sound, mistress hew!
Last Line: Sleep sound, mistress hew!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ALICE RODD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lyeth our infant, alice rodd
Last Line: And now we weepe no more than we forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ALILCE CASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother bore me
Last Line: Of its youthful soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ALL THE SAME IN THE END (EPITAPH IN HOMERSFIELD CHURCHYARD), by ISAAC ROSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I walked by myself I talked to myself
Last Line: "the self-same thing it will be."
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ALMYRA WILMARTH; 3 YRS. 7 MOS. 4 DAYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A suffering little child has come unto thee
Last Line: And in your bosom of love have comfort and rest
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women


AN EPICUREAN'S EPITAPH, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from my lips the last faint sigh is
Last Line: "and spreads his limbs in peace under the sun-warm'd mould!"
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "gaily I lived, as ease and nature taught"
Last Line: "should think of me, who never thought of him"
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come knock your heads against this stone
Last Line: For sorrow that poor john thompson's gone.
Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology


AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was buried near this dike
Last Line: That my friends may weep as much as they like
Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology


AN EPITAPH, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, traveller, the barrington lies here, who left us poor mortals
Last Line: In thee, and so fare thee well.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Trinity College, Cambridge


AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies one who never drew / blood himself, yet many slew
Last Line: Pointer to sir john throckmorton.
Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Beneath this stone lies one good man; and when
Last Line: That many a wretch through him has gone to hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a most beautiful lady
Last Line: This lady of the west country?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs; Transience; Impermanence


AN EPITAPH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last, stone, a little yet
Last Line: Sharing in solitude her dreams with thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs; Transience; Impermanence


AN EPITAPH, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair canace this little tomb doth hide
Last Line: Lest her sweet tongue should force the fates to save her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was too delicate to give or take
Last Line: Death asked of her to make no compromise!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


AN EPITAPH, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath this quiet, turfy
Last Line: As usual — kerosene.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He died, and left the world behind!
Last Line: Gave place to a meaner man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here a gentle poet lies
Last Line: Hush thy laughter, whisper low.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


AN EPITAPH, by SAMUEL WESLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lie I, once a witty fair
Last Line: My noon was penitent.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Guilt; Mourning; Repentance; Shame; Bereavement; Penitence


AN EPITAPH (AFTER THE GREEK EPIGRAMS), by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies a journalist. I wish you would
Last Line: Tell them in fleet street, for their good.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


AN EPITAPH ON A DUTCH CAPTAIN, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a soldier not oblig'd to fame
Last Line: Could I but comprehend it in my verse.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Soldiers


AN EPITAPH ON HIM, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here wither'd lies a flower, which blown
Last Line: Since one unworthy took it hence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH ON HIS MOST HONORED FRIEND, RICHARD, EARL OF DORSET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let no profane ignoble foot tread neer
Last Line: And want a mourner at his funeral.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sackville, Richard. 3rd Earl Of Dorset


AN EPITAPH ON M.H., by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this cold monument lies one
Last Line: To seek new lechery in death.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mourning; Bereavement


AN EPITAPH ON MASTER VINCENT CORBET, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have my piety too, which could
Last Line: Who makes the one, so it be first, makes both.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH ON MR.WM. HOPTON, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, stay, and read a truth
Last Line: Back again, and sleep with him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hopton, William (d. 1591)


AN EPITAPH ON MRS. EL: Y, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Underneath this stone there lies
Last Line: In a stone her worth. Farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH ON MY DEAR AUNT, MRS. ANN STANHOPE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear, bold passenger, forbear
Last Line: Here she, who was the best of women, lies.
Subject(s): Aunts; Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH ON NIOBE TURNED TO STONE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This pile thou seest built out of flesh, not stone
Last Line: Is neither tomb nor body, and yet both.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Niobe


AN EPITAPH ON ROBERT PORT, ESQ., DESIGNED FOR A MONUMENT, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Virtue in those good times that bred good men
Last Line: Who was what all we should, but cannot be.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH ON SIR JOHN PROWDE, LIEUTENANT TO CHARLES MORGAN, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a march of twenty years and more
Last Line: That honour laid me in the bed of war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Groenlo, The Netherlands; Prowde, Sir John (d. 1627); War


AN EPITAPH ON THE EARL OF SANDWICH, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies the dust of that illustrious man
Last Line: Lies equal here with england's greatest kings.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Montagu, Edward. 1st Earl Of Sandwich


AN EPITAPH ON TRUE, HER MAJESTY'S DOG, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If wit or honesty cou'd save
Last Line: And mend your own, by true's behaviour.
Variant Title(s): True's Epitaph
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs; Faith; Honesty; Belief; Creed


AN EPITAPH UPON HIS HONOURED FRIEND, MASTER WARRE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies the knowing head, the honest heart
Last Line: Here's no distinction 'twixt the house and tomb.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH UPON MISTRESS I.T., by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, if thou hast a tear
Last Line: She robb'd not earth to add to heaven.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AN EPITAPH UPON THE DEATH OF HIS AUNT, ELIZABETH SKRYMSHER, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loe here beholde the certaine ende, of every living wight
Last Line: That wee may live with christ himselfe, (above) that lives for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Aunts


AN EPITAPH UPON THE DEATH OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by RICHARD BARNFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That england lost, that learning lov'd, that every mouth commended
Last Line: O graunt (o god) that wee of her, may never be deprived.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


AN EPITAPH, INTENDED FOR HIMSELF, by JAMES BEATTIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Escaped the gloom of mortal life, a soul
Last Line: I was a friend, o man, to thee, to all.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self


AN EPITAPH, ON A FOOLISH BOASTER, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here to its pristine dust again is hurl'd
Last Line: Flutter a while, fall, and are seen no more.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


AN UNHAPPY MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I, denys of tarsus, lie dead"
Last Line: My father before
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AND THIS UPON ON HIS LADY, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies mrs. Keene the bishop of chester
Last Line: She had a bad face which did sadly molest her.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Keene, Edward. Bishop Of Chester


ANGELA BURDETT-COUTTS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long with us, now she leaves us; she has rest
Last Line: The daylight gift of god.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


ANN HARDS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They took me in death dim
Last Line: Who but an infant was.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ANN POVERTY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, here lies
Last Line: Poverty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ASPATIA'S SONG, FR. THE MAID'S TRAEGDY, by JOHN FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew
Last Line: Upon my buried body lay lightly, gentle earth.
Variant Title(s): I Died True
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ASRAFEL HOLT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is buried a miser
Last Line: When all earth's else fails!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


AT A POET'S GRAVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I leave down this pipe my friend
Last Line: And summer-bells are rung.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones


AT LEEDS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies my wife
Last Line: Hallelujee!
Subject(s): Epitaphs;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives


AT THE FUNERAL, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her sacred body bear: the tenement
Last Line: And gave new readings to the title, queen.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


BE VERY QUIET, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be very quiet now
Last Line: In this shadow deep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


CHRYSTOPHER ORCHERDSON ', by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here restes ye boddie of one
Last Line: Not oures, but goddes waye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


CORPORAL PYM, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This quiet mound beneath
Last Line: Nor death of him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


CREMATION BY A BURNING ADMIRER OF SIR HENRY THOMPSON, by WILLIAM SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: To urn, or not to urn? That is the question
Last Line: And shudder at cremation.
Subject(s): Cremation; Epitaphs; Thompson, Sir Henry (1820-1904)


DANCE OF DEATH: EPITAPH, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lords, I forget what I knew
Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, venerate this hallowed ground
Last Line: "their little mistress they bemoan."
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies


DIVINE POEMS: AN EPITAPH, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When that my days are spent, nor do I know
Last Line: Cannot from ashes flowers renew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Religion; Theology


DR. JOHNSON, by SOAME JENYNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies poor johnson. Reader! Have a care
Last Line: Will tell you how he wrote, and talked, and spit.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


ELEGIE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow
Last Line: The grave no conquest gets, death hath no sting.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


ELGIN CATHEDRAL EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here lie I, martin elginbrudde"
Last Line: And ye were martin elginbrodde
Variant Title(s): At Aberdeen
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ELIZA DREW AND JAMES HANNEWAY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rest in peace eliza drew and james hanneway
Last Line: They'll not laugh less sweetly who learn to laugh last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EMMANUEL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a strangely serious child
Last Line: Smiling -- that he is so sound asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EP ON A GOOD MAN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies -- the world
Last Line: There rises one.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EP ON THE WORLD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies the body of this world
Last Line: We only know that here it lies.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the barber hick
Last Line: He killed himself with drinking rum
Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;barbers;epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Such as ye are such
Last Line: Day and dyes tomorrow
Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Afflictions sore long time we bore
Last Line: And ease us from our pain
Subject(s): Epitaphs;fortitude


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This worlds a city full of crooked streets
Last Line: The rich could always live and the poor must die
Subject(s): Epitaphs;poverty;wealth; Riches;fortunes


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold the place wherein I lye
Last Line: From lyfe to death follow me
Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath these stones repose the bones
Last Line: And then the bier took him
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: His jacet john shorthose
Last Line: "sine lands, sine riches"
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my wife is dead, and here she lies"
Last Line: "nobody knows, and nobody cares"
Subject(s): Epitaphs;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "farewell, dear wife! My life is past"
Last Line: But love my brother for my sake
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "charity, wife of gideon blight"
Last Line: That her husband told her to
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sacred to the memory of anthony drake
Last Line: So he sought for repose a twelve-dollar coffin
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "beneath this stone, a lump of clay, / lies arabella young"
Last Line: Began to hold her tongue
Subject(s): Epitaphs;women


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies deane donne; enough; those words alone
Last Line: "his spirit, will day, it is lesse bold than true"
Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);epitaphs;poetry & Poets;


EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This spot is the sweetest I've seen in my life
Last Line: For it raises my flowers and covers my wife
Subject(s): Cemeteries;epitaphs; Graveyards


EPITAPH, by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies our friend who having promis-ed
Last Line: Into the stream that runs thro' portland place
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by MAURICE BARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here murdered by the frenzied, not the free
Last Line: And waited for the rising of the king.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The form's divinity, the heart's best grace
Last Line: Of one best union of that deathless twain.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved, was loved. The puff of smoke called life
Last Line: I lie where I may dream, nor dream in vain.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Epitaphs; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here sleeps at length poor col., and without screaming
Last Line: All alone and unknown, at edinbro' in an inn.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by LOUISE DRISCOLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the flesh that tried
Last Line: Twill greet the sun a flower.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the dust a spirit sank like dew
Last Line: And stormy joy and an ecstatic pain.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH, by HAFEZ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bethink, poor heart, what bitter kind of jest
Last Line: She laid a slab of marble on his head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by THOMAS HERVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Entombed here lies sweet smiling nan
Last Line: "since, laid near her, he can be cold."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hervey, Thomas (1699-1775)
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here by this quiet pool
Last Line: Calling his princess.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by GEORGE JEFFREYS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No length of melancholy years
Last Line: "since fortune never can."
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by RAZEL LEBENSBOIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Say that she couldn't forgive
Last Line: And small men ruined her
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again, traveller, you have come a long way led by that star
Last Line: Living on catastrophe, eating the pure light
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Men


EPITAPH, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd
Last Line: And now she's in t'other, she thinks it but queer.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by EDWIN ROLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in this earth, / deeper than grave was dug
Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)


EPITAPH, by EDWIN ROLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in this earth, %deeper than grave was dug
Last Line: Over and under earth ceaselessly growing, %over and under earth endlessly growing
Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)


EPITAPH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A slave yet wearing on my head a crown
Last Line: I fell a victim to the jealous turk.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Slavery; Tears; Serfs


EPITAPH, by MARGARET SACKVILLE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy, perch above
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy, perch above
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only god exists. Spirits are a phantom
Last Line: Always. Get up now. You've pledged yourself and awakened impossible menu
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O youth, o beauty, ye who fed the flame
Last Line: To deck your glory, not his false renown.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Youth


EPITAPH, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies a lady
Last Line: The sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH, by GRACE SOUTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Close-lipped was I, and no man called me friend
Last Line: And see how friendly I have grown with earth.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This to a mother's sacred memory
Last Line: Whom death hath sunder'd did not meet again!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mothers


EPITAPH, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, five foot deep, lies on his back %a cobbler
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Serene descent, as a red leaf's descending
Last Line: Nor he awake to know she does not care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies an honest man
Last Line: Here too lies the engraver.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath this turf, in sweet repose
Last Line: "and virtue waits to welcome thine."
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies john hughes and sarah drew
Last Line: For pope has wrote upon their tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Lightning; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Male-female Relations; Feminism


EPITAPH, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For this she starred her eyes with salt
Last Line: A better grave than this.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ACROSTICK ON ROBERT BLAKE, by GEORGE HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: R est here in peace the sacred dust
Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Epitaphs; Sea


EPITAPH FOR A CONDEMNED BOOK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader placid and bucolic / sober, guileless man of the good
Last Line: Pity me! . . . If not, be damned!
Subject(s): Books; Epitaphs; Reading


EPITAPH FOR A POET WHO WROTE NO POETRY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What was the service of this poet? He
Last Line: Who knew so little, and who felt so much.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets


EPITAPH FOR A REAL ESTATE DEALER, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And now he has no single plot of ground
Last Line: Excepting that in which he sleeps so sound!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Irony


EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR BURIED ASHORE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He who but yesterday would roam
Last Line: Whose will the water's will!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Funerals; Sailing & Sailors; Burials


EPITAPH FOR CU CHUINME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cu chuimne in his youth
Last Line: And turned away from women %to complete his studies
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH FOR GAVIN HAMILTON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poor man weeps - here gavin sleeps
Last Line: May I be sav'd or damn'd!
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of many things adulterate
Last Line: He lived while waiting but to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Imagination; Prisons & Prisoners; Fancy; Convicts


EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The monument which thou beholdest here
Last Line: With his creator, peace, joy, truth and love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self


EPITAPH FOR J(OHN). B(ERRYMAN)., by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He did his bit
Last Line: He wrote in fits, %then called it quits
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Literature


EPITAPH FOR LOVERS, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mere silence will mark
Last Line: Dead, we keep saying
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Love


EPITAPH FOR MARIANA GRYPHIUS, HIS BROTHER PAUL'S LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born on the run, ambushed by sword and flame
Last Line: But I was old if you add the things I suffered
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs


EPITAPH FOR PETER STUYVESANT, 1682, by HENRICUS SELYNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lieth stuyvesant-stir not too deep the sand!
Last Line: Insufferable. At first too rich; at last too poor.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; New York City - Dutch Period; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672)


EPITAPH FOR ROBERT AIKEN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know thou, o stranger to the fame
Last Line: A warmer heart death ne'er made cold.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH FOR THE TOMB OF CESAR FLOREZ IN THE CEMETERY OF THE SAILORS..., by RIGAS KAPPATOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Neither the passing of time nor the pitiless
Last Line: He was only nineteen years old
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Guyana; Memory


EPITAPH FOR THOMAS JOHNSON, HUNTSMAN, D. 1774, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here johnson lies; what human can deny
Last Line: Unpleasing truth: death hunts is from our birth %in view, and men, like foxes, take to earth
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs


EPITAPH FROM THE LATIN ON THE COUNT OF MIRANDULA: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies lord coningsby - be civil
Last Line: The rest god knows -- so does the devil.
Subject(s): Coningsby, Thomas, Lord (1656-1729); Epitaphs; Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni. Conte


EPITAPH INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature, and nature's laws lay hid in night
Last Line: God said, let newton be! And all was light.
Variant Title(s): Science
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)


EPITAPH OF A JAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Already the cattle in the shade of the stable
Last Line: The voltairesque grandpa far from his passions smokes %you can't, he says, lose the sun
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Jays


EPITAPH OF A STINKING POET, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here stinks a poet, I confess
Last Line: Yet wanting breath stinks so much less.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


EPITAPH OF CONSTANTINE KANARIS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am constantine kanaris
Last Line: Till I rise from earth again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm
Subject(s): Epitaphs; God; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH OF DIONYSIA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here doth dionysia lie
Last Line: Loves and graces like to thee
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH OF KING JAMES, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies king james who did so propagate
Last Line: That tears in them force thee to weep again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON A BEAUTIFUL INFANT, by THOMAS MAURICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright to the sun expands the vernal rose
Last Line: Put forth fair blossoms, charmed us, and expired.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies


EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: They killed her lamb, and no one wept
Last Line: This was the little one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies


EPITAPH ON A CLEISH SCHOOLMASTER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lie willie michie's banes
Last Line: For clever deils he'll mak them!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


EPITAPH ON A HENPECKED SQUIRE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As father adam first was fooled
Last Line: The devil ruled the woman.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON A MADMAN'S GRAVE, by MORRIS GILBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The time had come to kill himself, he said
Last Line: The way he used to do when he was five.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH ON A MOCK MARQUIS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a mock marquis whose titles were shamm'd
Last Line: If ever he rise, it will be to be damn'd.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear
Last Line: His father's fifth, her only son.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


EPITAPH ON A TOMB NEAR ROME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Squander for me no scent of myrrh
Last Line: Dead men conspicuously have no taste
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mourning


EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY, by DAVID MALLET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This humble grave though no proud structure graces
Last Line: And holy friendship stands a mourner here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Malloch, David
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH ON A YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sailor! If vigour nerve thy frame
Last Line: Such tears will not disgrace the brave! --
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sailing & Sailors; War; Seamen; Sails


EPITAPH ON AN EDITOR, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rejection, of a kind, was what he was after
Last Line: And when he died their little elegies were hung in the streets
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON BREWER GABRIAL, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here brewer gabriel's fire's extinct
Last Line: In upright, honest morals.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Epitaphs; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine


EPITAPH ON CHARLES II, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies our sovereign lord the king
Last Line: Nor ever did a wise one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Variant Title(s): King Charles Ii;on Charles Ii
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON COLONEL GARDINER, WHO WAS SLAIN IN BATTLE OF PRESTON PANS, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While fainter merit asks the powers of verse
Last Line: And surely his a glorious road to god.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The


EPITAPH ON DIOPHANTUS, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: With diagrams no more to daunt us
Last Line: The life and death: required the age.
Subject(s): Diophantus (3rd Century); Epitaphs; Mathematics


EPITAPH ON DR. JOHNSON, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here johnson lies, a sage by all allowed
Last Line: By fame on earth, by glory in the skies!
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Underneath this greedy stone
Last Line: The only melancholy stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Variant Title(s): Erotion
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH ON GENERAL HENRY WHITHERS, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here withers rest! Thou bravest, gentlest mind
Last Line: The last true briton lies beneath this stone.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON GOODMAN HURST OF THE GEORGE AT HORSHAM, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See what we are: for though we often say
Last Line: And never knew what he made here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hurst, Richard (d. 1637)


EPITAPH ON HER SON HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What on earth deserves our trust?
Last Line: Bury'd in a morning cloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church
Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Epitaphs; Life; Youth; Death - Babies


EPITAPH ON HIMSELF, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stop, christian passer-by! Stop, child of god
Last Line: He ask'd, and hoped, through christ, do thou the same!
Variant Title(s): Coleridge's Epitaph For Himself, Written 9 November 1833
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets


EPITAPH ON HIS ELDEST SON, THOMAS, 1682, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er thou art, that look'st upon
Last Line: And set'st thy soul upon, is soonest lost.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sons


EPITAPH ON HOLY WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here holy willie's sair worn clay
Last Line: If it were kent ye did it.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON JAMES GRIEVE, THE LAIRD OF BOGHEAD, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies boghead amang the dead / in hopes to get salvation
Last Line: Then welcome -- hail! Damnation.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hate


EPITAPH ON JAMES MOORE-SMYTHE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies what had not birth, nor shape, nor fame
Last Line: For how can no-thing be annihilated?
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hate


EPITAPH ON KATHERINE, LADY OGLE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a record in heaven. You, that were
Last Line: And this a copy is of the record.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON LADY OSSORY'S BULLFINCH, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All flesh is grass and so are feather too: / finches must die, as well as I & yo
Last Line: What serves for one will serve for t' other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Two Piping-bullfinches Of Lady Ossry's
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Feathers; Finches; Funerals; Rest; Burials


EPITAPH ON LADY RICH, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Possest of all that nature could bestow
Last Line: Have never honour'd any tomb than hers.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON LEVI LINCOLN THAXTER; INSCRIBED ON A ROCK ABOVE THE GRAVE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, whom these eyes saw never! Say friends true
Last Line: Help me with knowledge -- for life's old -- death's new!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Thaxter, Levi Lincoln (1824-1884); Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH ON MISS ELIZABETH STANLEY; IN HOLYROOD CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a lively image of human nature
Last Line: Is all the hope thy hapless mother knows.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON MISS GEE, WHO DIED OCTOBER 25, 1736, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauteous, nor known to pride, to friends sincere
Last Line: Was once the good, the wise, the beautiful, the gay.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH ON MR. FRANCIS LEE OF THE TEMPLE, GENT., by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature having seen the fates
Last Line: And hid it underneath this tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Lee, Francis (d. 1637)


EPITAPH ON MR. JOHN DEANE, OF NEW COLLEGE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let no man walk near this tomb
Last Line: Thy bed untouch'd whilst thou dost sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Deane, John (1596-1626); Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON MR. JOHN SMYTH, CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF PEMBROKE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know thou, that tread'st on learned smyth inurn'd
Last Line: We shall fall down, and sleep with him in dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Clergy; Epitaphs; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


EPITAPH ON MR. SIBLEY OF STUDHAM, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies an honest man! Without pretence
Last Line: Where, spite of anstis, rots the garter'd knave.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Dead, The


EPITAPH ON MR. THOMAS STRONG, WHO DIED ON 26 DECEMBER 1736, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In action prudent, and in word sincere
Last Line: Thy friends shall answer, weeping, 'here lies strong.'
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Dead, The


EPITAPH ON MR. TURNER OF ST. MARY-HALL, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I rose, and coming down to dine
Last Line: Was but a dinner, and away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Turner, Richard (1607-1637)


EPITAPH ON MR. VAUX, THE PHYSICIAN, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay! This grave deserves a tear
Last Line: Will rather think you in the grave than he.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vaux, Francis (1601-1631)


EPITAPH ON MRS. ANNE PRIDEAUX, DAUGHTER OF DR. PRIDEAUX, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature in this small volume was about
Last Line: Threw dust upon it, and shut up the book
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Prideaux, John (1578-1650); Death - Babies


EPITAPH ON MY FATHER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains
Last Line: For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers; Life Change Events; Religion; Theology


EPITAPH ON NICOL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye maggots, feed on nichol's brain
Last Line: For deil a bit o't's rotten.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Nicol, William (1744-1797); Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


EPITAPH ON NOISY POLEMIC (BURNS'S 'BLETH'RIN BITCH'), by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Below thir stanes lie jamie's banes
Last Line: Into thy dark dominion!
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON ONE DROWNED IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd
Last Line: My last shall give me back to life agen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Drowning; Epitaphs; Snow


EPITAPH ON PURSY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Traveller, this is no prison
Last Line: Here lies the engraver.
Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON SIR EDWARD SACKVILLE'S CHILD WHO DIED IN HIS BIRTH, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, here lies a child that never cri'd
Last Line: Nothing that ever di'd hath liv'd so long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth


EPITAPH ON SIR FRANCIS VERE, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou appear
Last Line: This world for him made paradise again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vere, Sir Francis (1560-1609)


EPITAPH ON SIR R.D., by WILLIAM HAMMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies the pattern of good men
Last Line: Was wrapt up in the common-wealth.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON SUSANNAH BARBAULD MARISSAL, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, mild saint! -- meek child of love, farewell
Last Line: And endless joy succeeds to transient woes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This little grave embraces
Last Line: One duke and twentie places
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies the best and worst of fate
Last Line: The great mans volume, all times story
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON THE EARL OF STRAFFORD, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies wise and valiant dust
Last Line: Speechless still, and never cry.
Variant Title(s): Gravestones
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Wentworth, Thomas. Earl Of Strafford; Dead, The


EPITAPH ON THE HAMMER OF MR. W --, A CELEBRATED MINERALOGIST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the dust, its strange adventure o'er
Last Line: "woman or ""man that meddles with cold iron."
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Geology; Wilton, C. Pleydell N. (1795-1859)


EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1), by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This little vault, this narrow room
Last Line: The flames, the arrows, all lie here.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies


EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2), by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady mary villiers lies
Last Line: May'st find thy darling in an urn.
Variant Title(s): On The Lady Mary Villiers
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies


EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (3), by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The purest soule that e're was sent
Last Line: Of room to lodge th' inhabitant.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies


EPITAPH ON THE LADY SALTER, WIFE TO SIR WILLIAM SALTER, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The harmony of colours, features, grace
Last Line: To purchase that, she sold death all the rest.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON THE LAP-DOG OF LADY FRAIL (LADY VANE), by JOHN WILKES    Poem Text                    
First Line: At thieves I bark'd, at lovers wagg'd my tail
Last Line: And thus I pleased both lord and lady frail.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON THE REV. SAMUEL CLARK, WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF 42, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Though such various worth is seldom known
Last Line: The man, the friend, the preacher, and the saint.
Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Epitaphs; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The


EPITAPH ON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SUSAN, COUNTESS OF MONTGOMERY, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though we trust the earth with thee
Last Line: Outspeaks all tombs, outlives all life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Herbert, Susan. Countess Of Montgomery; Vere, Susan (d. 1628)


EPITAPH ON THE SECRETARY TO THE MUSES, by JANE BARKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: He's gone, and fate admits of no return
Last Line: Where, if there's any drink, he'll find it out.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON TOM D'URFEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here lyes the lyrick, who with tale and song"
Last Line: "his song has ended, and his tale has told"
Subject(s): "d'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723);epitaphs;


EPITAPH ON TWO YOUNG MEN NAMED LEITCH IN CROSSING THE RIVER SOUTHESK, by JAMES BEATTIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou! Whose steps in sacred reverence tread
Last Line: Happy the friends whom death cannot divide!
Subject(s): Drowning; Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON WEE JOHNNY (HIS PUBLISHER), by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er thou art, o reader know
Last Line: For saul he ne'er had ony.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH ON [OR INTENED FOR] HIS WIFE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Last Line: Now she's at rest. And so am I.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EPITAPH TO LET, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My name was - (weel - what signifies?) - my nation
Last Line: And here I lie - (ay, ay - that's sure enough)
Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH UPON DR. DONNE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This decent urne a sad inscription weares
Last Line: "which with amazements, we may now reherse"
Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);epitaphs;poetry & Poets;


EPITAPH: 1, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you die? - I died of everything
Last Line: Slew me in turn—and last of all came death.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 10, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My day has dawned and loud within my ears
Last Line: Upon the field in france—jour de ma vie!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


EPITAPH: 11, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life did not stint
Last Line: This thirst of mine.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 12, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Too soon
Last Line: My grassy prison.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Night; Bedtime


EPITAPH: 13, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke and called aloud but none replied
Last Line: Dozed for an hour or so—then went to sleep.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sleep


EPITAPH: 14, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My wandering feet
Last Line: Of every quest.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Peace; Rest


EPITAPH: 15, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad wind shifts and stirs
Last Line: Yet no wind grieves.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


EPITAPH: 16, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His life was like white steel. A mind
Last Line: Trusty watch about his sleep.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Sleep; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 17, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered over seas. From one green glade
Last Line: We might have never met.—yet here we meet.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Wandering & Wanderers


EPITAPH: 18, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now her golden self is gone
Last Line: Such radiance forth—and dead yet lives.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 19, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Humbly I lived but very proudly died
Last Line: He left, but folded me beneath his wings.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 2. FOR A BLIND MAN, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On many a road, forlorn
Last Line: To find in death my light?
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: 20, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A handful of wild thyme, a breath, a song
Last Line: And then to die.—what better could I do?
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 21, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity me, pray
Last Line: Now I am dead.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Prayer; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 22, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a name, a place, who now have none
Last Line: On a grey slab is all I've had of fame!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fame; Graves; Dead, The; Reputation; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH: 23, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Break not my silence, trouble not my sleep
Last Line: None knows—nor what death tells me now I'm dead.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 24, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is finished which was all delight
Last Line: Rainbows of foam and bubbles of the sea.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 25, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scent of faded roses once a-bloom
Last Line: I waked—then slept with summer and her flowers.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH: 26, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All's done
Last Line: A butterfly.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Solitude; Loneliness


EPITAPH: 27, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My beauty was
Last Line: Of air 'tis gone!
Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs


EPITAPH: 28, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew joy once and after could not bear
Last Line: Delight? Poor men who know her not at all
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Happiness; Joy; Delight


EPITAPH: 29, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall be said of me? He lived a span
Last Line: Then died.—no more?—what more of any man?
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 3, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My burial place
Last Line: Through the long dark.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Graves; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


EPITAPH: 30, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Year out year in, I took my daily pleasure
Last Line: Death (whom I scarce believed in) sprang on me.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 31, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether this little
Last Line: I know not.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship


EPITAPH: 32, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As shining sand-drift
Last Line: Whirl away.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Thought; Thinking


EPITAPH: 33, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I died so long ago
Last Line: Thus I sleep well.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 34, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because too proud almost to live or die
Last Line: Over this mound of earth stumbled and fell.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


EPITAPH: 4, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though life was good
Last Line: Have need of rest.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Rest; Sleep


EPITAPH: 5, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mastered life and did bestride him well
Last Line: But death's another matter. Here I fell.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: 6, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither of earth nor heaven here she lies
Last Line: Poor troubled ashes, gentle and unwise.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise


EPITAPH: 7, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely I lived and died: - let no footfall
Last Line: Disturb me now—for that were worse than all!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness


EPITAPH: 8, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Patient and bent he trod a thorny road
Last Line: A little body under a great load.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: 9, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For long my feet
Last Line: My feet for wings.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: ANN COOK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a thursday she was born
Last Line: And on a thursday died
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: ANN SOTHAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How loved how valued once avails thee not
Last Line: Tis all thou art and all the proud shall be
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: ANNUNCIATION, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Motion swept the world aside, aghast to white nerve nets
Last Line: Slow, from inside
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: CATHERINE BAKER (1778-1779), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah lovely child and art thou fled
Last Line: So soon to join the silent dead
Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies


EPITAPH: ELEANOR BOYES (1758-1784), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "short was my race, long is my rest"
Last Line: "god called me hence, it pleased him best"
Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth


EPITAPH: FOR A FICKLE MAN, by MARK VAN DOREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two women had these words engraved
Last Line: And that his will be ever done
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: GORDON OF KHARTOUM, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of men he would have raised to light he fell
Last Line: The man of england circled by the sands.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: HENRY BROWN (1851-1861), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How soon I was cut down when innocent at play
Last Line: The wind it blew a scaffold down and took my life away
Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies


EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May! Be thou never graced with birds that sing
Last Line: Mine only died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EPITAPH: J. C. M., by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fountain of our sweetest, quick to spring
Last Line: To gladden blue forgets him; near he hides.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: JAMES CHRISTOPHER WILSON, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou our beloved and light of earth hast crossed
Last Line: Through love to kindle in our souls the more.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Light; Dead, The


EPITAPH: JOHN BUCKETT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And is alas! Poor buckett gone
Last Line: Still guarding stockbridge with thy sign
Subject(s): Epitaphs;landlords & Tenants


EPITAPH: JOHN HUGHES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a faithful friend, a father dear"
Last Line: An unfortunate husband lieth here
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: JOHN PRICE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Praises on tombs are trifles vainly spent
Last Line: A man's good name is his own monument
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: JOHN ROWLEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All you that are young prepare to die
Last Line: Wait a while and you'll follow me
Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality


EPITAPH: JOHN TROT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies john trot, the friend of all mankind
Last Line: But now they stand in every bodies way
Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology


EPITAPH: JUSTICE, by THEOCRITUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet hipponax lies here
Last Line: Now he enjoys (like his readers) sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hipponax (540 B.c.)


EPITAPH: LADY C. M., by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To them that knew her, there is vital flame
Last Line: So strong a spirit is not of the dead.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: LADY URSULA BAYNARD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: God's goodnes made hir wise & well beseeming
Last Line: "blest w' two babes, though death brought hir to this"
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: M.M., by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who call her mother and who calls her wife
Last Line: Look on her grave and see not death but life.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EPITAPH: ON HIMSELF, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, approach my urn--thou need'st not fear
Last Line: Alas! The young, the gay is now no more!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The


EPITAPH: RALPH BALDWYN (1671-1689), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: His early vertue took a pitying view
Last Line: O' th' world and like it not and bid adieu
Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth


EPITAPH: SARAH EAMES (1815-1827), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here is a tender branch laid low
Last Line: A sweeter flower could never blow
Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth


EPITAPH: THAW, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little clicks all night in the back lane there blackness
Last Line: Anvil of deep decree
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers


EPITAPH: THE EMPEROR FREDERICK OF OUR TIME, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With alfred and st. Louis he doth win
Last Line: The ever-flowering common heart for home.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


EPITAPH: THEOPHILUS BROOKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How blest is he who ne'er contents
Last Line: Where men profanely talked
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: THOMAS HOWELS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farewell my wife so dear
Last Line: For you I thought the best
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH: THOMAS PEIRCE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When his own watch was done on the last day
Last Line: Until he rise again no more to die
Subject(s): Clocks;epitaphs;time


EPITAPH: THOMAS PORT (1805-1838), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright rose the morn and vigorous rose young port
Last Line: A mutilated corpse the sufferer lay
Subject(s): Accidents;epitaphs


EPITAPH: TO A FRIEND LOST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I remember, friend, whom lost I call
Last Line: Partakers of a strife they joyed to share.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship; Loss


EPITAPH: WILLIAM HOPKINS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O youth repent
Last Line: Was tane away
Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality


EPITAPH: ZION, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Murderous little world once our objects had gazes. Our lives
Last Line: Who drank a bowl of elsewhere
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH; INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT ERECTED BY GENTLEMAN FOR HIS LADY, by JAMES BEATTIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, my best beloved! Whose heavenly mind
Last Line: My guide, my friend, my best beloved, farewell!
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH; ON MR. ROBERT PORT, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies he, whom the tyrant's rage
Last Line: Honour, and hospitality.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPH; ON MRS. MARY DRAPER, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, if thou cast thine eye
Last Line: Alive, or 'tis impossible.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPHS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honest iago. When his breath was fled
Last Line: That in unlovely earth takes root and grows.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


EPITAPHS, by ORHAN VELI KANIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing made him suffer in this world
Last Line: If only there were no parting
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Muslims


EPITATH ON AN ENGRAVER, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By death's favor
Last Line: He ne'er will get translated to the skies.
Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; Epitaphs


FANNY MEADOWS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One, two, three'
Last Line: And -- out goes she!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


FELTONS EPITAPH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heere uninterr'd suspendes (though not to save
Last Line: Contend to beare his bodie to his soule
Subject(s): Epitaphs


FOR AN EPITAPH AT FIESOLE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! Where the four mimosas blend their shade
Last Line: And he had lived enough when he had dried her tear.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)


FOR KATRINA'S SUN-DIAL; IN HER GARDEN OF YADOO, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hours fly
Last Line: Time is not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time


FOR KATRINA'S WINDOW; IN HER GARDEN OF YADDO, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the window's message
Last Line: Let in every ray of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Windows


FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me 'twas given to die; to thee 'tis given
Last Line: Mark! How impartial is the will of heaven!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise


FOR SIR JOHN VANBRUGH, ARCHITECT. AN EPIGRAMMICAL EPITAPH, by ABEL EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lie heavy on him, earth! For he
Last Line: Laid many heavy loads on thee!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)


FUNERAL SONG FOR THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In its summer pride arrayed
Last Line: Lays a garland on thy herse.
Subject(s): Blessings; Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Epitaphs; Funerals; Grief; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Honor; Wales; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Welshmen; Welshwomen


GEO-BESTIARY: 18, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was commanded, in a dream naturally
Last Line: 33. We'll all see god but not with our eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Epitaphs; Nightmares


GEORGE DENHAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the body of geordie denham
Last Line: If ye saw him now ye wadna ken him
Subject(s): Epitaphs


GHAZALS: 9, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He said the grizzly sat eating the sheep and when the bullet
Last Line: Day crowds so that they'll indignantly topple my gravestone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Hunting; Dead, The; Hunters


HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGETITON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, reading the anthology
Last Line: Your act is vocal still. Men grow deaf
Subject(s): Books; Epitaphs


HAWARDEN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When comes the lighted day for men to read
Last Line: Among us who celestial tasks has done.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Dead, The


HERE LIES MY HUSBANDS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies my husbands; one, two, three
Last Line: And to make things tidy, I adds his -- james.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


HIS OWN EPITAPH, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One aeschylus, athenian born
Last Line: Who tried and found it good.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self


I'LL BE YOUR EPITAPH, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over your dear dead heart I'll lift
Last Line: But your dark dust will know.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


IDYLL 1. THE EPITAPH OF ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I and the loves adonis dead deplore
Last Line: For thou must wail again, and weep another year.
Subject(s): Adonis; Epitaphs; Mythology - Classical


IDYLL 3. EPITAPH FOR BION, by MOSCHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mournfully answer my groan, dark vales and dorian water
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Epitaphs


IDYLL 3. THE EPITAPH OF BION, A LOVING HERDSMAN, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan!
Last Line: Could I charm dis with songs, I too would sing for thee.
Variant Title(s): Lament For Bion
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Cyclops; Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IL IMMATURO; EPITAPH, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave youth, whose too too hasty fate
Last Line: And this cold stone had ne'er said, here he lies.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The


IN CHRIST CHURCH, BRISTOL, ON THOMAS TURNER, by FRANCIS JEFFREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like to a baker's oven is the grave
Last Line: Though set like dough, they shall be drawn like bread.
Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Epitaphs


IN MEMORIAM: TAMMY MESSER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the banes of tammy messer
Last Line: And died of drinking ardent spirits
Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;epitaphs


IN PETERBOROUGH CHURCHYARD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "reader, pass on, nor idly waste your time"
Last Line: And what I was in no affair of yours
Subject(s): Epitaphs


INSCRIPTION (FOR THE MATRON CLAUDIA, C. 135 - 120 B.C.), by PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Short is my say, o stranger. Stay and read
Last Line: She kept house: span her wool. I have said. Farewell
Alternate Author Name(s): Terence
Subject(s): Epitaphs


INSCRIPTION IN NETHER STOREY CHURCH IN MEMORY OF RICHARD CAMPLIN, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife
Last Line: And the voice tremble with a last farewell!
Subject(s): Epitaphs


INSCRIPTION: EPITAPH ON KING JOHN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John rests below. A man more infamous
Last Line: For they must bear the burthen of thy crime.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; John, King Of England (1167-1216); Lackland, John


INTENDED FOR A STONE IN THE GROUNDS OF RYDAL MOUNT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In these fair vales hath many a tree
Last Line: As one of the departed
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self


ISAAC MEEK, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hook-nosed was I , loose-lipped; greed fixed its gaze
Last Line: Stoop close: I have inherited the earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


J. T., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's jane taylor
Last Line: Dear jane taylor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


JACK AND JOAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Interred beneath this marble stone
Last Line: And so they lived; and so they died.
Variant Title(s): An Epitaph
Subject(s): Children; Death; Epitaphs; Fear; Life; Love; Childhood; Dead, The


JACOB TODD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here be the ashes of jacob todd
Last Line: He bedded for ye judgement day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Sexton
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


JOB HODSON AND HIS FOUR WIVES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rests in peace, rebecca anne
Last Line: And him, the husband of the above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


JOHN BUN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies john bun
Last Line: "but wood would not rhyme with gun, but bun would"
Subject(s): Epitaphs


JOHN SEVERIN WALGREN, 1874-1962, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees die of thirst or cold
Last Line: She moves us to terror.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Death; Epitaphs; Loss; Nature; Dead, The


JOHN SIMPSON, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is that john simpson?'
Last Line: Ask again.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


JOHN VIRGIN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou, stranger, be john virgin, then the
Last Line: Six fathom in the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


JOHNNIE DOW'S EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wha lies here?
Last Line: "ay, mon, but I'm dead now"
Subject(s): Epitaphs


JULES RAOUL DUBOIS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here sleeps a frenchman: would I could
Last Line: One word were all sufficient -- peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


JUST THINK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just think! Some night the stars will gleam
Last Line: A star-gleam on a stone.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


LIEGEWOMAN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You may not wear immortal leaves
Last Line: "the passion of him, soul and thew."
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Women


LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY BURNS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who of rankine sang, lies stiff and dead
Last Line: Alas! Alas! A devilish change indeed.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


M.O.R.S., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, where I at peace do lie
Last Line: Leave me to my own company!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


MILENA WILETT; I YR. OLD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thy mother strives in patient trust
Last Line: Her baby's sleeping now
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women


MOCK EPITAPH ON MR. AND MRS. ESTLIN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While far from home
Last Line: For so the fates have pleased.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Epitaphs


MY OWN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaden with earth, as earth by such as I
Last Line: To waken in fit time what herein sleeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self


MY OWN EPITAPH, by MARY CHANDLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies a true maid, deformed and old
Last Line: Believing she lost not her soul with her breath.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self


N.F., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See now, if thou have any heed
Last Line: Lest the unsleeping find the wake!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


NAT VOLE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lieth nat vole
Last Line: He'd not listeners seek!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


NED GUN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where be sam potter now?
Last Line: No: nor ned gunn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


NED VAUGHAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A shepherd, ned vaughan
Last Line: And shepherd in sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Shepherd
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


O.A., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who: and how: and where: and when
Last Line: Still with their last breath, why?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here souter hood in death does sleep
Last Line: He'll haud it weel thegither.
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Souter Hood
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON A FAVOURITE DOG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou who passest on the path
Last Line: Likewise engraved those words on my tomb
Subject(s): Animals;death - Animals;dogs;epitaphs


ON A FOOL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the earl of suffolk's fool
Last Line: "dickys enough are still behind, / to laugh at by-and-by"
Subject(s): Epitaphs;fools; Idiots


ON A MALTESE WATCH-DOG, by TYMNES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the stone says it holds the white dog
Last Line: Voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carian
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs


ON A SCOTCH COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light lay the earth on billy's breast
Last Line: His scull will prop it under.
Variant Title(s): Epigram On A Noted Coxcomb
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fools; Vanity; Idiots


ON A TUFT-HUNTER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lament, lament, sir isaac heard
Last Line: Than sav'd in vulgar company.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Turf-hunter
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vanity


ON A WAG IN MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lament him, mauchline husbands a'
Last Line: Perhaps he was your father!
Variant Title(s): Epitaph For James Smith;epitaph On A Wag In Mauchline
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Scotland


ON A YOUNG LADY WHO DIED UNMARRIED, by AARON HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ripe in virtue, green in years
Last Line: "and hides her blushes in his breast."
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON AN INFANT, by SAMUEL WESLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath, a sleeping infant lies
Last Line: "had been as short as thine."
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies


ON ANDREW TURNER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In seventeen hundred and forty-nine
Last Line: An' ca'd it andrew turner.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON HEARING THE NEWS FROM VENICE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak
Last Line: When song is murk from springs of turbid source.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


ON HIS WIFE, AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou need'st no tomb, my wife, for thou
Last Line: Shall there be seen as in the book of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON JOHN DOVE [JOHNNY DOW], INNKEEPER OF MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies johnny pidgeon
Last Line: And port was celestial glory.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON JOHN DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER, WHO DIED IN THE TWENTY-FIRST YEAR OF AGE, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Intent to hear, and bounteous to bestow
Last Line: These honours, egerton, were all thy own!
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The


ON MR. CRUIKSHANK OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honest will to heaven's away
Last Line: In english nane e'er kent them.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


ON MRS. DOVE, WIFE TO THE REVEREND DR. HENRY DOVE; EPITAPH, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis thus - and thus farewell to all
Last Line: Are soonest ravish'd from our eyes.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON PETER ROBINSON, by FRANCIS JEFFREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the preacher, judge, and poet, peter
Last Line: Who broke the laws of god, and man and metre.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON PRINCE FREDERICK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies fred
Last Line: "who was alive and is dead, / there's no more to be said"
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON READING COLERIDGE'S EPITAPH, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit! So oft in radiant freedom soaring
Last Line: One lesson breathing thence profound humility!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Humility; Poetry & Poets


ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sacred relics, which your marble keep
Last Line: His pious widow consecrates this tomb.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fairborne, Sir Palmes (1634-1680); Graves; Westminster Abbey; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by FRANCIS FAWKES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Short and precarious is the life of man
Last Line: And bloomed renewed in everlasting life.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Immortality; Youth; Dead, The


ON THE DEATH OF MISTRESS ELIZABETH FILMER; AN ELEGIACAL EPITAPH, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You that shall live awhile before
Last Line: When all but very virtue's dead.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE 1818, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death has gone up into our palaces
Last Line: May best deserve our love.
Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Epitaphs; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Grief; Marriage; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON THE LAMENTED DEATH OF MY DEAR UNCLE, MR. RADCLIFF STANHOPE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such is the unsteady state of human things
Last Line: It knows I truly weep these obsequies.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Uncles


ON THE PASSING OF KING GEORGE V, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When time has sifted motives, passions, deeds
Last Line: And ventured to a nobler marching word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Memory; Prayer; Rest; Dead, The


ON THE REVEREND JONATHAN DOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the reverend jonathan doe
Last Line: I can't congratulate the devil
Subject(s): Epitaphs


ON TWIN-SISTERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "fair marble, tell to future days"
Last Line: That death mistook them both for one
Subject(s): Death;epitaphs;twins; "dead, The;


ONE DAY THE BISHOP OFFERED TO GIVE A GENTLEMAN A GOOSE ..., by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies edmund keene lord bishop of chester
Last Line: And this upon his lady--
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Geese; Keene, Edward. Bishop Of Chester


POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: AN EPITAPH, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some leave their home for private discontent
Last Line: Which was thy good, and true religion.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Exiles; Grief; Home; Knights & Knighthood; Sorrow; Sadness


REQUIEM, by SHELBY MARTINEAU DODSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no death, there is but change
Last Line: There is but life -- there are no dead.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


REQUIESCAT, by FRANK FREDERICK CLOUSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her grave lies high where wind and sun
Last Line: Yet who is blessed, she or we?
Subject(s): Epitaphs


REST IS SILENCE', by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My name was -' 'does it matter?' 'my country -' 'can it profit?'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary
Subject(s): Epitaphs


RICHARD HALLADAY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each in place as god did 'gree
Last Line: Ask again -- ask again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SAM LOVER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor sam lover
Last Line: His wildness over.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SAMMIE GURDON, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe, my friend, thou'rt main athirst'
Last Line: Will warmly welcome thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SCRIPT MIST, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hang on to moment, naked, fair
Last Line: In the great carpentry
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Screen Writing; Writing & Writers; Motion Pictures - Play Writing


SECOND EPITAPH, by PIERRE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the gloomy banks of the melas, at tomasson in pamphylia
Last Line: Seen my tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Farewell; Graves; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones


SILAS DWIGHT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though hautboy and basoon may break
Last Line: And stop out shrill, this happy morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SIR WILLOUGHBY BRANKSOME, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Alack!
Last Line: What more is left to say?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SON OF MAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Son of man, tell me
Last Line: Since thou art thyself as I am.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL; EPITAPH FOR 'LYONNELL LOCKIER', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lockyer lies interr'd: enough his name
Last Line: "this verse is lost, his pills embalm him safe / to future times without an epitaph"
Subject(s): Epitaphs;physicians; Doctors


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RICHARD BONE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I first came to spoon river
Last Line: Or because he is influenced to hide it.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EPITAPH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind reader! Take your choice to cry or laugh
Last Line: Ten thousand just as fit for him as you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SUSANNA HARBERT, SPINSTER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let upon my bosom be
Last Line: Will sweeten this ancient haunt of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SUSANNAH FRY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here sleep I
Last Line: Under the rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


SUSANNAH PROUT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies my wife
Last Line: Come back to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


TAKE WARNING FROM THIS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here lies, cut down like unripe fruit"
Last Line: Anny dominy eighteen forty
Subject(s): Coffee;epitaphs


THE BOY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finger on lip I ever stand
Last Line: Stooping to speak to thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THE EPITAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not dead, but sleeping. So it read
Last Line: "be man enough to own it."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THE EPITAPH OF RAPHAEL, by PIETRO BEMBO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies that raphael whose art made nature dread
Last Line: To seem half dead, he living, and half to die, he dead.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Raphael (1483-1520)


THE INN: AN OLD EPITAPH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Post-haste we ride the road of men
Last Line: Who soonest goes hath least to pay.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hotels; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE KNIGHT'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the church which pisa, great and free
Last Line: "and love, and music, his inglorious life."
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Knights & Knighthood


THE LAUGHING WILLOW, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To see the kaiser's epitaph
Last Line: Would make a weeping willow laugh.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Laughter; Willow Trees


THE MIDGET, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just a span and half a span
Last Line: He keeps his own small darkened house.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE AMBER SNUFF-BOX, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box
Last Line: Laughed, and the statesman's reputation grew.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hearts; Life; Tears; Youth


THE POET'S OWN EPITAPH, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies the son of battus
Last Line: Friendly laughter with his wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self


THE SPANIARD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Laid in this english ground
Last Line: To cry his sins so far from home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THE SUN-DIAL AT WELLS COLLEGE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadow by my finger cast
Last Line: The now on which the shadow stands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time


THE VIRGIN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blessed mary, pity me
Last Line: To shower a lifetime's sorrows on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THE WIDOW (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou a widow? Then, my friend
Last Line: Dust of thy loved one rest near by!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Widows & Widowers


THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is topsy-turvy turn'd
Last Line: "long life to the king!"" shouting gladly."
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Germany; Heroism; Germans; Heroes; Heroines


THOMAS LOGGE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies thomas logge - a rascally dogge
Last Line: Should be at him again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THOMAS YARNTON OF TARLTON, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of those old men fearing no man
Last Line: Of thomas yarnton of tarlton dumbly.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THONMAS GROAT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All men are mortal, and I know't
Last Line: Gone for to seek his crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THREE SCORE YEARS I LIVED, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three score years I lived; and then
Last Line: Hence, this unutterable darke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


THREE SISTERS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three sisters rest beneath
Last Line: And adelaide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sisters


TIMOCREON, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After much eating, drinking, speaking ill
Last Line: Of others, here timocreon lies still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Epitaphs


TIMOTHY BLACKSTONE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O death, have care
Last Line: And weep for me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


TO A POET ON HIS EPITAPH FOR THE FALLEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Splendidly dying, yet their fame
Last Line: To save their splendour in a rhyme.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


TO HASEKAWA, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps it doesn't matter that you died
Last Line: But life has told on you.
Variant Title(s): An Epitaph
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Life; Truth; Dead, The


TOM HEAD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I rang yon bells a score of years
Last Line: As made it seem to sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN SAMOS, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turinna, famed for every grace
Last Line: Revive from such distress again.
Subject(s): Daughters; Epitaphs; Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood


TWO EPITAPHS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love lingers here while life has fled'
Last Line: Then hail, o death, to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The


UPON BEN JONSON [JOHNSON], by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies jonson [johnson] with the rest
Last Line: Of his glory. So farewell.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets


UPON HIS KINSWOMAN MRS. M.S., by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a virgin, and as sweet
Last Line: You'l do my neice abundant honour.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Must noble hastings immaturely die
Last Line: Monument is his spouses marble brest.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Friendship; Life; Soul; Dead, The


VERSES TO RANKINE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ae day, as death, that gruesome carl
Last Line: And quickly stoppit rankine's breath.
Subject(s): Epitaphs


W. H. EHEU!, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath this stone does william hazlitt lie
Last Line: He died like one who dared not hope to live.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)


WILLIAM HACKLE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's an old taylour, rest his eye
Last Line: Needle and thredde put by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


WILLIAM PARR, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He that lies here was mortal olde
Last Line: In seventeen hundred sixty three.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


WORDSWORTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls
Last Line: The hidden fountain of recovered joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)