Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EPITAPH UPON FRANCES JONES, by ANDREW MARVELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough; and leave the rest to fame Last Line: Twas more significant, she's dead. | ||||||||
ENOUGH; and leave the rest to Fame! 'Tis to commend her, but to name. Courtship which, living, she declined, When dead, to offer were unkind: Nor can the truest wit, or friend, Without detracting, her commend. To say -- she lived a virgin chaste In this age loose and all unlaced; Nor was, when vice is so allowed, Of virtue or ashamed or proud; That her soul was on Heaven so bent, No minute but it came and went; That, ready her last debt to pay, She summ'd her life up every day; Modest as morn, as mid-day bright, Gentle as evening, cool as night: -- 'Tis true; but all too weakly said. 'Twas more significant, she's dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DROP OF DEW by ANDREW MARVELL AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND by ANDREW MARVELL CLORINDA AND DAMON by ANDREW MARVELL DAMON THE MOWER by ANDREW MARVELL EYES AND TEARS by ANDREW MARVELL ON MILTON'S PARADISE LOST by ANDREW MARVELL THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND by ANDREW MARVELL |
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