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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MORTEM VENERABILIS ANDREAE PROUT CARMEN, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet upland! Where, like hermit old, in peace sojourd'd Last Line: Not so the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Morality; Rest; Tragedy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Ethics | |||
Sweet upland! where, like hermit old, in peace sojourn'd This priest devout; Mark where beneath thy verdant sod lie deep inurn'd The bones of Prout! Nor deck with monumental shrine or tapering column His place of rest, Whose soul, above earth's homage, meek yet solemn, Sits mid the blest. Much was he prized, much loved; his stern rebuke O'er-awed sheep-stealers; And rogues feared more the good man's single look Than forty Peelers. He's gone; and discord soon I ween will visit The land with quarrels; And the foul demon vex with stills illicit The village morals. No fatal chance could happen more to cross The public wishes; And all the neighbourhood deplores his loss Except the fishes; For he kept Lent most strict, and pickled herring Preferred to gammon. Grim Death has broke his angling-rig; his berring Delights the salmon. No more can he hook up carp, eel, or trout, For fasting pittance,— Arts which Saint Peter loved, whose gate to Prout Gave prompt admittance. Mourn not, but verdantly let shamrocks keep His sainted dust; The bad man's death it well becomes to weep,— Not so the just. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POEM ON MORAL LEADERSHIP AS A POLITICAL DILEMMA by JUNE JORDAN SONG OF SOCIAL DESPAIR by MARVIN BELL THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL by NORMAN DUBIE TWO HORSES AND A DOG by JAMES GALVIN FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES by CAROLYN KIZER HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 4. THE MORAL by KAREN SWENSON URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THIS STORY MORALIZED by WILLIAM BASSE |
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