Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SMITH: MR. SMITH IS DEAD, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascend, my muse, on sorrow's sable plume Last Line: The blood-stained tomb where smith and comfort lie. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
ASCEND, my Muse, on Sorrow's sable plume, Let the soft number meet the swelling sigh; With laureated chaplets deck the tomb, The blood-stained tomb where Smith and comfort lie. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS AELLA: MINSTREL'S MARRIAGE-SONG by THOMAS CHATTERTON |
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