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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN PETERBOROUGH CHURCHYARD, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "reader, pass on, nor idly waste your time" Last Line: And what I was in no affair of yours Subject(s): Epitaphs | |||
Reader, pass on, nor idly waste your time, In bad biography, or bitter rhyme; What I am, this cumbrous clay ensures, And what I was is no affair of yours. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RICHARD BONE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS AN EPITAPH, INTENDED FOR HIMSELF by JAMES BEATTIE EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1) by THOMAS CAREW EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2) by THOMAS CAREW TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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