Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN DRYDEN 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 | ||||||||
YE Sacred Relicks which your Marble keep, Here, undisturb'd by Wars, in quiet sleep: Discharge the trust, which (when it was below) Fairborne's undaunted soul did undergo: And be the Towns Palladium from the foe. Alive and dead these Walls he will defend: Great Actions great Examples must attend. The Candian Siege his early Valour knew; Where Turkish Blood did his young hands imbrew: From thence returning with deserv'd Applause, Against the Moors his well-flesh'd Sword he draws; The same the Courage, and the same the Cause. His Youth and Age, his Life and Death combine: As in some great and regular design, All of a Piece, throughout, and all Divine Still nearer heaven, his Vertues shone more bright, Like rising flames expanding in their height; The Martyrs Glory Crown'd the Soldier's Fight. More bravely Brittish General never fell, Nor General's death was e're reveng'd so well; Which his pleas'd Eyes beheld before their close, Follow'd by thousand Victims of his Foes. To his lamented loss for time to come, His pious Widow consecrates this Tomb. | Other Poems of Interest...IN THE CREVICE OF TIME by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MTHE CIRCUIT JUDGE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY by JOHN DRYDEN A SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY GOING OUT OF TOWN IN THE SPRING by JOHN DRYDEN |
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