Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLARKE; DIED 1757, AGED 31, by THOMAS GRAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where this silent marble weeps Last Line: With life, with memory, and with love. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A Friend, a wife, a mother sleeps: A heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful virtues lov'd to dwell. Affection warm, and faith sincere. And soft humanity were there. In agony, in death, resign'd, She felt the wound she left behind, Her infant image here below, Sits smiling on a father's woe: Whom what awaits, while yet he strays Along the lonely vale of days? A pang, to secret sorrow dear; A sigh; an unavailing tear; Till time shall every grief remove, With life, with memory, and with love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD by THOMAS GRAY |
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