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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON MRS. MARGARET PASTON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet
Last Line: Now she is gone, the world is of a piece.
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Mrs. Margaret Paston, Of Barningham, In Norfolk
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Youth; Dead, The
First Line: So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet
Last Line: Now she is gone, the world is of a piece.
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Mrs. Margaret Paston, Of Barningham, In Norfolk
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Youth; Dead, The
So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet,
So ripe a Judgment, and so rare a Wit,
Require at least an Age in one to meet.
In her they met; but long they could not stay,
'Twas Gold too fine to fix without Allay.
Heav'n's Image was in her so well exprest,
Her very sight upbraided all the rest;
Too justly ravish'd from an Age like this,
Now she is gone, the World is of a Piece.
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