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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EPITAPHS Matches Found: 411 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BABY'S EPITAPH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, made me: winter laid me here away asleep Last Line: Here I sleep not: pass, and weep not here upon your child. Subject(s): April; Babies; Death; Epitaphs; Infants; Dead, The A CRETAN MERCHANT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here brotachus from cretan gortyn lies Last Line: He did not come for this, but merchandise. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Epitaphs A DEDICATION, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes youth comes to age and asks a Last Line: Of such are you; and what is youth but this? Subject(s): Epitaphs A FAMILY FAVORITE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Here lies a cat of local fame Last Line: All pure and beautiful. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Comedy; Death; Epitaphs; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas A NAMELESS EPITAPH (1), by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This sentence have I left behind Last Line: Are god's worst portion to mankind. Subject(s): Epitaphs A NAMELESS EPITAPH (2), by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask not my name, o friend! Last Line: Remember each unto the end. Subject(s): Epitaphs A POET'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou a statesman [or, statist], in the van Last Line: Or build thy house upon this grave. Subject(s): Epitaphs A POOR NATURAL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lieth a poor natural Last Line: Wherein to attire a natural. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE TWO CLOWNS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: - synthetic clown-clown, hip hip, whirl! Last Line: That he could not whirl a hurricane. Subject(s): Clowns; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The A TOMBLESS EPITAPH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, idoloclastes satyrane Last Line: Thoughtful, with quiet tears upon his cheek. Subject(s): Epitaphs ALICE HEW, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep sound, mistress hew! Last Line: Sleep sound, mistress hew! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs ALICE RODD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyeth our infant, alice rodd Last Line: And now we weepe no more than we forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs ALILCE CASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me Last Line: Of its youthful soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs ALL THE SAME IN THE END (EPITAPH IN HOMERSFIELD CHURCHYARD), by ISAAC ROSS Poem Text First Line: As I walked by myself I talked to myself Last Line: "the self-same thing it will be." Subject(s): Epitaphs ALMYRA WILMARTH; 3 YRS. 7 MOS. 4 DAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A suffering little child has come unto thee Last Line: And in your bosom of love have comfort and rest Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women AN EPICUREAN'S EPITAPH, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from my lips the last faint sigh is Last Line: "and spreads his limbs in peace under the sun-warm'd mould!" Subject(s): Epicureanism; Epitaphs AN EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "gaily I lived, as ease and nature taught" Last Line: "should think of me, who never thought of him" Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come knock your heads against this stone Last Line: For sorrow that poor john thompson's gone. Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was buried near this dike Last Line: That my friends may weep as much as they like Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology AN EPITAPH, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, traveller, the barrington lies here, who left us poor mortals Last Line: In thee, and so fare thee well. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Trinity College, Cambridge AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies one who never drew / blood himself, yet many slew Last Line: Pointer to sir john throckmorton. Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Epitaphs AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Beneath this stone lies one good man; and when Last Line: That many a wretch through him has gone to hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a most beautiful lady Last Line: This lady of the west country? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs; Transience; Impermanence AN EPITAPH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last, stone, a little yet Last Line: Sharing in solitude her dreams with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs; Transience; Impermanence AN EPITAPH, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair canace this little tomb doth hide Last Line: Lest her sweet tongue should force the fates to save her. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was too delicate to give or take Last Line: Death asked of her to make no compromise! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The AN EPITAPH, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this quiet, turfy Last Line: As usual kerosene. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He died, and left the world behind! Last Line: Gave place to a meaner man! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here a gentle poet lies Last Line: Hush thy laughter, whisper low. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The AN EPITAPH, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie I, once a witty fair Last Line: My noon was penitent. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Guilt; Mourning; Repentance; Shame; Bereavement; Penitence AN EPITAPH (AFTER THE GREEK EPIGRAMS), by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Here lies a journalist. I wish you would Last Line: Tell them in fleet street, for their good. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists AN EPITAPH ON A DUTCH CAPTAIN, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a soldier not oblig'd to fame Last Line: Could I but comprehend it in my verse. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Soldiers AN EPITAPH ON HIM, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here wither'd lies a flower, which blown Last Line: Since one unworthy took it hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH ON HIS MOST HONORED FRIEND, RICHARD, EARL OF DORSET, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no profane ignoble foot tread neer Last Line: And want a mourner at his funeral. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sackville, Richard. 3rd Earl Of Dorset AN EPITAPH ON M.H., by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this cold monument lies one Last Line: To seek new lechery in death. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mourning; Bereavement AN EPITAPH ON MASTER VINCENT CORBET, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have my piety too, which could Last Line: Who makes the one, so it be first, makes both. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH ON MR.WM. HOPTON, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, stay, and read a truth Last Line: Back again, and sleep with him. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hopton, William (d. 1591) AN EPITAPH ON MRS. EL: Y, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath this stone there lies Last Line: In a stone her worth. Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH ON MY DEAR AUNT, MRS. ANN STANHOPE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear, bold passenger, forbear Last Line: Here she, who was the best of women, lies. Subject(s): Aunts; Epitaphs AN EPITAPH ON NIOBE TURNED TO STONE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This pile thou seest built out of flesh, not stone Last Line: Is neither tomb nor body, and yet both. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Niobe AN EPITAPH ON ROBERT PORT, ESQ., DESIGNED FOR A MONUMENT, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virtue in those good times that bred good men Last Line: Who was what all we should, but cannot be. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH ON SIR JOHN PROWDE, LIEUTENANT TO CHARLES MORGAN, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a march of twenty years and more Last Line: That honour laid me in the bed of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Groenlo, The Netherlands; Prowde, Sir John (d. 1627); War AN EPITAPH ON THE EARL OF SANDWICH, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies the dust of that illustrious man Last Line: Lies equal here with england's greatest kings. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Montagu, Edward. 1st Earl Of Sandwich AN EPITAPH ON TRUE, HER MAJESTY'S DOG, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If wit or honesty cou'd save Last Line: And mend your own, by true's behaviour. Variant Title(s): True's Epitaph Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs; Faith; Honesty; Belief; Creed AN EPITAPH UPON HIS HONOURED FRIEND, MASTER WARRE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies the knowing head, the honest heart Last Line: Here's no distinction 'twixt the house and tomb. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH UPON MISTRESS I.T., by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, if thou hast a tear Last Line: She robb'd not earth to add to heaven. Subject(s): Epitaphs AN EPITAPH UPON THE DEATH OF HIS AUNT, ELIZABETH SKRYMSHER, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loe here beholde the certaine ende, of every living wight Last Line: That wee may live with christ himselfe, (above) that lives for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Epitaphs; Aunts AN EPITAPH UPON THE DEATH OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That england lost, that learning lov'd, that every mouth commended Last Line: O graunt (o god) that wee of her, may never be deprived. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) AN EPITAPH, INTENDED FOR HIMSELF, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Escaped the gloom of mortal life, a soul Last Line: I was a friend, o man, to thee, to all. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self AN EPITAPH, ON A FOOLISH BOASTER, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here to its pristine dust again is hurl'd Last Line: Flutter a while, fall, and are seen no more. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AN UNHAPPY MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I, denys of tarsus, lie dead" Last Line: My father before Subject(s): Epitaphs AND THIS UPON ON HIS LADY, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies mrs. Keene the bishop of chester Last Line: She had a bad face which did sadly molest her. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Keene, Edward. Bishop Of Chester ANGELA BURDETT-COUTTS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long with us, now she leaves us; she has rest Last Line: The daylight gift of god. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The ANN HARDS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They took me in death dim Last Line: Who but an infant was. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs ANN POVERTY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, here lies Last Line: Poverty. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs ASPATIA'S SONG, FR. THE MAID'S TRAEGDY, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew Last Line: Upon my buried body lay lightly, gentle earth. Variant Title(s): I Died True Subject(s): Epitaphs ASRAFEL HOLT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is buried a miser Last Line: When all earth's else fails! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs AT A POET'S GRAVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave down this pipe my friend Last Line: And summer-bells are rung. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones AT LEEDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies my wife Last Line: Hallelujee! Subject(s): Epitaphs;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives AT THE FUNERAL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her sacred body bear: the tenement Last Line: And gave new readings to the title, queen. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The BE VERY QUIET, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be very quiet now Last Line: In this shadow deep! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs CHRYSTOPHER ORCHERDSON ', by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here restes ye boddie of one Last Line: Not oures, but goddes waye! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs CORPORAL PYM, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This quiet mound beneath Last Line: Nor death of him. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs CREMATION BY A BURNING ADMIRER OF SIR HENRY THOMPSON, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: To urn, or not to urn? That is the question Last Line: And shudder at cremation. Subject(s): Cremation; Epitaphs; Thompson, Sir Henry (1820-1904) DANCE OF DEATH: EPITAPH, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lords, I forget what I knew Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Epitaphs DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ah, venerate this hallowed ground Last Line: "their little mistress they bemoan." Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies DIVINE POEMS: AN EPITAPH, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that my days are spent, nor do I know Last Line: Cannot from ashes flowers renew. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Epitaphs; Religion; Theology DR. JOHNSON, by SOAME JENYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies poor johnson. Reader! Have a care Last Line: Will tell you how he wrote, and talked, and spit. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) ELEGIE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow Last Line: The grave no conquest gets, death hath no sting. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The ELGIN CATHEDRAL EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here lie I, martin elginbrudde" Last Line: And ye were martin elginbrodde Variant Title(s): At Aberdeen Subject(s): Epitaphs ELIZA DREW AND JAMES HANNEWAY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here rest in peace eliza drew and james hanneway Last Line: They'll not laugh less sweetly who learn to laugh last. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs EMMANUEL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a strangely serious child Last Line: Smiling -- that he is so sound asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs EP ON A GOOD MAN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies -- the world Last Line: There rises one. Subject(s): Epitaphs EP ON THE WORLD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies the body of this world Last Line: We only know that here it lies. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies the barber hick Last Line: He killed himself with drinking rum Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;barbers;epitaphs EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Such as ye are such Last Line: Day and dyes tomorrow Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Afflictions sore long time we bore Last Line: And ease us from our pain Subject(s): Epitaphs;fortitude EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This worlds a city full of crooked streets Last Line: The rich could always live and the poor must die Subject(s): Epitaphs;poverty;wealth; Riches;fortunes EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Behold the place wherein I lye Last Line: From lyfe to death follow me Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Beneath these stones repose the bones Last Line: And then the bier took him Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;epitaphs EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: His jacet john shorthose Last Line: "sine lands, sine riches" Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my wife is dead, and here she lies" Last Line: "nobody knows, and nobody cares" Subject(s): Epitaphs;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "farewell, dear wife! My life is past" Last Line: But love my brother for my sake Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "charity, wife of gideon blight" Last Line: That her husband told her to Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sacred to the memory of anthony drake Last Line: So he sought for repose a twelve-dollar coffin Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beneath this stone, a lump of clay, / lies arabella young" Last Line: Began to hold her tongue Subject(s): Epitaphs;women EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies deane donne; enough; those words alone Last Line: "his spirit, will day, it is lesse bold than true" Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);epitaphs;poetry & Poets; EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This spot is the sweetest I've seen in my life Last Line: For it raises my flowers and covers my wife Subject(s): Cemeteries;epitaphs; Graveyards EPITAPH, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies our friend who having promis-ed Last Line: Into the stream that runs thro' portland place Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here murdered by the frenzied, not the free Last Line: And waited for the rising of the king. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The form's divinity, the heart's best grace Last Line: Of one best union of that deathless twain. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved, was loved. The puff of smoke called life Last Line: I lie where I may dream, nor dream in vain. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Epitaphs; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sleeps at length poor col., and without screaming Last Line: All alone and unknown, at edinbro' in an inn. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: Here lies the flesh that tried Last Line: Twill greet the sun a flower. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the dust a spirit sank like dew Last Line: And stormy joy and an ecstatic pain. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bethink, poor heart, what bitter kind of jest Last Line: She laid a slab of marble on his head. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by THOMAS HERVEY Poem Text First Line: Entombed here lies sweet smiling nan Last Line: "since, laid near her, he can be cold." Alternate Author Name(s): Hervey, Thomas (1699-1775) Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by this quiet pool Last Line: Calling his princess. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by GEORGE JEFFREYS Poem Text First Line: No length of melancholy years Last Line: "since fortune never can." Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by RAZEL LEBENSBOIM Poem Source First Line: Say that she couldn't forgive Last Line: And small men ruined her Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, traveller, you have come a long way led by that star Last Line: Living on catastrophe, eating the pure light Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Men EPITAPH, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd Last Line: And now she's in t'other, she thinks it but queer. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in this earth, / deeper than grave was dug Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Epitaphs; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) EPITAPH, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in this earth, %deeper than grave was dug Last Line: Over and under earth ceaselessly growing, %over and under earth endlessly growing Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Epitaphs; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) EPITAPH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A slave yet wearing on my head a crown Last Line: I fell a victim to the jealous turk. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Epitaphs; Slavery; Tears; Serfs EPITAPH, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poet's Biography First Line: Joy, perch above Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joy, perch above Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Only god exists. Spirits are a phantom Last Line: Always. Get up now. You've pledged yourself and awakened impossible menu Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Epitaphs EPITAPH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youth, o beauty, ye who fed the flame Last Line: To deck your glory, not his false renown. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Youth EPITAPH, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: Here lies a lady Last Line: The sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH, by GRACE SOUTH Poem Text First Line: Close-lipped was I, and no man called me friend Last Line: And see how friendly I have grown with earth. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This to a mother's sacred memory Last Line: Whom death hath sunder'd did not meet again! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mothers EPITAPH, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, five foot deep, lies on his back %a cobbler Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serene descent, as a red leaf's descending Last Line: Nor he awake to know she does not care. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies an honest man Last Line: Here too lies the engraver. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this turf, in sweet repose Last Line: "and virtue waits to welcome thine." Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john hughes and sarah drew Last Line: For pope has wrote upon their tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Lightning; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Male-female Relations; Feminism EPITAPH, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this she starred her eyes with salt Last Line: A better grave than this. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ACROSTICK ON ROBERT BLAKE, by GEORGE HARRISON Poem Source First Line: R est here in peace the sacred dust Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Epitaphs; Sea EPITAPH FOR A CONDEMNED BOOK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader placid and bucolic / sober, guileless man of the good Last Line: Pity me! . . . If not, be damned! Subject(s): Books; Epitaphs; Reading EPITAPH FOR A POET WHO WROTE NO POETRY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the service of this poet? He Last Line: Who knew so little, and who felt so much. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets EPITAPH FOR A REAL ESTATE DEALER, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: And now he has no single plot of ground Last Line: Excepting that in which he sleeps so sound! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Irony EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR BURIED ASHORE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who but yesterday would roam Last Line: Whose will the water's will! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Funerals; Sailing & Sailors; Burials EPITAPH FOR CU CHUINME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cu chuimne in his youth Last Line: And turned away from women %to complete his studies Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH FOR GAVIN HAMILTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poor man weeps - here gavin sleeps Last Line: May I be sav'd or damn'd! Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Of many things adulterate Last Line: He lived while waiting but to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Epitaphs; Imagination; Prisons & Prisoners; Fancy; Convicts EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The monument which thou beholdest here Last Line: With his creator, peace, joy, truth and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self EPITAPH FOR J(OHN). B(ERRYMAN)., by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He did his bit Last Line: He wrote in fits, %then called it quits Subject(s): Epitaphs; Literature EPITAPH FOR LOVERS, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: Mere silence will mark Last Line: Dead, we keep saying Subject(s): Epitaphs; Love EPITAPH FOR MARIANA GRYPHIUS, HIS BROTHER PAUL'S LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born on the run, ambushed by sword and flame Last Line: But I was old if you add the things I suffered Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs EPITAPH FOR PETER STUYVESANT, 1682, by HENRICUS SELYNS Poem Text First Line: Here lieth stuyvesant-stir not too deep the sand! Last Line: Insufferable. At first too rich; at last too poor. Subject(s): Epitaphs; New York City - Dutch Period; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672) EPITAPH FOR ROBERT AIKEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know thou, o stranger to the fame Last Line: A warmer heart death ne'er made cold. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH FOR THE TOMB OF CESAR FLOREZ IN THE CEMETERY OF THE SAILORS..., by RIGAS KAPPATOS Poem Source First Line: Neither the passing of time nor the pitiless Last Line: He was only nineteen years old Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Guyana; Memory EPITAPH FOR THOMAS JOHNSON, HUNTSMAN, D. 1774, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here johnson lies; what human can deny Last Line: Unpleasing truth: death hunts is from our birth %in view, and men, like foxes, take to earth Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs EPITAPH FROM THE LATIN ON THE COUNT OF MIRANDULA: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies lord coningsby - be civil Last Line: The rest god knows -- so does the devil. Subject(s): Coningsby, Thomas, Lord (1656-1729); Epitaphs; Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni. Conte EPITAPH INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, and nature's laws lay hid in night Last Line: God said, let newton be! And all was light. Variant Title(s): Science Subject(s): Epitaphs; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) EPITAPH OF A JAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Already the cattle in the shade of the stable Last Line: The voltairesque grandpa far from his passions smokes %you can't, he says, lose the sun Subject(s): Epitaphs; Jays EPITAPH OF A STINKING POET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stinks a poet, I confess Last Line: Yet wanting breath stinks so much less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances EPITAPH OF CONSTANTINE KANARIS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am constantine kanaris Last Line: Till I rise from earth again! Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Epitaphs; God; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH OF DIONYSIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here doth dionysia lie Last Line: Loves and graces like to thee Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH OF KING JAMES, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies king james who did so propagate Last Line: That tears in them force thee to weep again. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON A BEAUTIFUL INFANT, by THOMAS MAURICE Poem Text First Line: Bright to the sun expands the vernal rose Last Line: Put forth fair blossoms, charmed us, and expired. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They killed her lamb, and no one wept Last Line: This was the little one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON A CLEISH SCHOOLMASTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie willie michie's banes Last Line: For clever deils he'll mak them! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors EPITAPH ON A HENPECKED SQUIRE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As father adam first was fooled Last Line: The devil ruled the woman. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON A MADMAN'S GRAVE, by MORRIS GILBERT Poem Text First Line: The time had come to kill himself, he said Last Line: The way he used to do when he was five. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH ON A MOCK MARQUIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a mock marquis whose titles were shamm'd Last Line: If ever he rise, it will be to be damn'd. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear Last Line: His father's fifth, her only son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness EPITAPH ON A TOMB NEAR ROME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Squander for me no scent of myrrh Last Line: Dead men conspicuously have no taste Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mourning EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY, by DAVID MALLET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This humble grave though no proud structure graces Last Line: And holy friendship stands a mourner here. Alternate Author Name(s): Malloch, David Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON A YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sailor! If vigour nerve thy frame Last Line: Such tears will not disgrace the brave! -- Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sailing & Sailors; War; Seamen; Sails EPITAPH ON AN EDITOR, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Rejection, of a kind, was what he was after Last Line: And when he died their little elegies were hung in the streets Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON BREWER GABRIAL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here brewer gabriel's fire's extinct Last Line: In upright, honest morals. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Epitaphs; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine EPITAPH ON CHARLES II, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies our sovereign lord the king Last Line: Nor ever did a wise one. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): King Charles Ii;on Charles Ii Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Epitaphs EPITAPH ON COLONEL GARDINER, WHO WAS SLAIN IN BATTLE OF PRESTON PANS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While fainter merit asks the powers of verse Last Line: And surely his a glorious road to god. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The EPITAPH ON DIOPHANTUS, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With diagrams no more to daunt us Last Line: The life and death: required the age. Subject(s): Diophantus (3rd Century); Epitaphs; Mathematics EPITAPH ON DR. JOHNSON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here johnson lies, a sage by all allowed Last Line: By fame on earth, by glory in the skies! Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath this greedy stone Last Line: The only melancholy stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Erotion Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON GENERAL HENRY WHITHERS, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here withers rest! Thou bravest, gentlest mind Last Line: The last true briton lies beneath this stone. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON GOODMAN HURST OF THE GEORGE AT HORSHAM, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See what we are: for though we often say Last Line: And never knew what he made here. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hurst, Richard (d. 1637) EPITAPH ON HER SON HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What on earth deserves our trust? Last Line: Bury'd in a morning cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Epitaphs; Life; Youth; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON HIMSELF, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, christian passer-by! Stop, child of god Last Line: He ask'd, and hoped, through christ, do thou the same! Variant Title(s): Coleridge's Epitaph For Himself, Written 9 November 1833 Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets EPITAPH ON HIS ELDEST SON, THOMAS, 1682, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art, that look'st upon Last Line: And set'st thy soul upon, is soonest lost. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sons EPITAPH ON HOLY WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here holy willie's sair worn clay Last Line: If it were kent ye did it. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON JAMES GRIEVE, THE LAIRD OF BOGHEAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies boghead amang the dead / in hopes to get salvation Last Line: Then welcome -- hail! Damnation. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hate EPITAPH ON JAMES MOORE-SMYTHE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies what had not birth, nor shape, nor fame Last Line: For how can no-thing be annihilated? Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hate EPITAPH ON KATHERINE, LADY OGLE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a record in heaven. You, that were Last Line: And this a copy is of the record. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON LADY OSSORY'S BULLFINCH, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All flesh is grass and so are feather too: / finches must die, as well as I & yo Last Line: What serves for one will serve for t' other. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Two Piping-bullfinches Of Lady Ossry's Subject(s): Epitaphs; Feathers; Finches; Funerals; Rest; Burials EPITAPH ON LADY RICH, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Possest of all that nature could bestow Last Line: Have never honour'd any tomb than hers. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON LEVI LINCOLN THAXTER; INSCRIBED ON A ROCK ABOVE THE GRAVE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whom these eyes saw never! Say friends true Last Line: Help me with knowledge -- for life's old -- death's new! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Thaxter, Levi Lincoln (1824-1884); Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON MISS ELIZABETH STANLEY; IN HOLYROOD CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a lively image of human nature Last Line: Is all the hope thy hapless mother knows. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON MISS GEE, WHO DIED OCTOBER 25, 1736, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous, nor known to pride, to friends sincere Last Line: Was once the good, the wise, the beautiful, the gay. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MR. FRANCIS LEE OF THE TEMPLE, GENT., by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature having seen the fates Last Line: And hid it underneath this tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Lee, Francis (d. 1637) EPITAPH ON MR. JOHN DEANE, OF NEW COLLEGE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no man walk near this tomb Last Line: Thy bed untouch'd whilst thou dost sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Deane, John (1596-1626); Epitaphs EPITAPH ON MR. JOHN SMYTH, CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF PEMBROKE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know thou, that tread'st on learned smyth inurn'd Last Line: We shall fall down, and sleep with him in dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Clergy; Epitaphs; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops EPITAPH ON MR. SIBLEY OF STUDHAM, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies an honest man! Without pretence Last Line: Where, spite of anstis, rots the garter'd knave. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MR. THOMAS STRONG, WHO DIED ON 26 DECEMBER 1736, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In action prudent, and in word sincere Last Line: Thy friends shall answer, weeping, 'here lies strong.' Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MR. TURNER OF ST. MARY-HALL, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rose, and coming down to dine Last Line: Was but a dinner, and away. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Turner, Richard (1607-1637) EPITAPH ON MR. VAUX, THE PHYSICIAN, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay! This grave deserves a tear Last Line: Will rather think you in the grave than he. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vaux, Francis (1601-1631) EPITAPH ON MRS. ANNE PRIDEAUX, DAUGHTER OF DR. PRIDEAUX, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature in this small volume was about Last Line: Threw dust upon it, and shut up the book Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Prideaux, John (1578-1650); Death - Babies EPITAPH ON MY FATHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains Last Line: For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers; Life Change Events; Religion; Theology EPITAPH ON NICOL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye maggots, feed on nichol's brain Last Line: For deil a bit o't's rotten. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Nicol, William (1744-1797); Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors EPITAPH ON NOISY POLEMIC (BURNS'S 'BLETH'RIN BITCH'), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below thir stanes lie jamie's banes Last Line: Into thy dark dominion! Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON ONE DROWNED IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd Last Line: My last shall give me back to life agen. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Drowning; Epitaphs; Snow EPITAPH ON PURSY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Traveller, this is no prison Last Line: Here lies the engraver. Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; Epitaphs EPITAPH ON SIR EDWARD SACKVILLE'S CHILD WHO DIED IN HIS BIRTH, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, here lies a child that never cri'd Last Line: Nothing that ever di'd hath liv'd so long. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth EPITAPH ON SIR FRANCIS VERE, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou appear Last Line: This world for him made paradise again. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vere, Sir Francis (1560-1609) EPITAPH ON SIR R.D., by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies the pattern of good men Last Line: Was wrapt up in the common-wealth. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON SUSANNAH BARBAULD MARISSAL, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, mild saint! -- meek child of love, farewell Last Line: And endless joy succeeds to transient woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This little grave embraces Last Line: One duke and twentie places Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies the best and worst of fate Last Line: The great mans volume, all times story Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON THE EARL OF STRAFFORD, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies wise and valiant dust Last Line: Speechless still, and never cry. Variant Title(s): Gravestones Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Wentworth, Thomas. Earl Of Strafford; Dead, The EPITAPH ON THE HAMMER OF MR. W --, A CELEBRATED MINERALOGIST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the dust, its strange adventure o'er Last Line: "woman or ""man that meddles with cold iron." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Epitaphs; Geology; Wilton, C. Pleydell N. (1795-1859) EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (1), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little vault, this narrow room Last Line: The flames, the arrows, all lie here. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (2), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady mary villiers lies Last Line: May'st find thy darling in an urn. Variant Title(s): On The Lady Mary Villiers Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS [OR VILLERS] (3), by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The purest soule that e're was sent Last Line: Of room to lodge th' inhabitant. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON THE LADY SALTER, WIFE TO SIR WILLIAM SALTER, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harmony of colours, features, grace Last Line: To purchase that, she sold death all the rest. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON THE LAP-DOG OF LADY FRAIL (LADY VANE), by JOHN WILKES Poem Text First Line: At thieves I bark'd, at lovers wagg'd my tail Last Line: And thus I pleased both lord and lady frail. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs EPITAPH ON THE REV. SAMUEL CLARK, WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF 42, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Though such various worth is seldom known Last Line: The man, the friend, the preacher, and the saint. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Epitaphs; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The EPITAPH ON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SUSAN, COUNTESS OF MONTGOMERY, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we trust the earth with thee Last Line: Outspeaks all tombs, outlives all life. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Herbert, Susan. Countess Of Montgomery; Vere, Susan (d. 1628) EPITAPH ON THE SECRETARY TO THE MUSES, by JANE BARKER Poem Text First Line: He's gone, and fate admits of no return Last Line: Where, if there's any drink, he'll find it out. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON TOM D'URFEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here lyes the lyrick, who with tale and song" Last Line: "his song has ended, and his tale has told" Subject(s): "d'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723);epitaphs; EPITAPH ON TWO YOUNG MEN NAMED LEITCH IN CROSSING THE RIVER SOUTHESK, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! Whose steps in sacred reverence tread Last Line: Happy the friends whom death cannot divide! Subject(s): Drowning; Epitaphs EPITAPH ON WEE JOHNNY (HIS PUBLISHER), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art, o reader know Last Line: For saul he ne'er had ony. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON [OR INTENED FOR] HIS WIFE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Last Line: Now she's at rest. And so am I. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH TO LET, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My name was - (weel - what signifies?) - my nation Last Line: And here I lie - (ay, ay - that's sure enough) Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH UPON DR. DONNE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This decent urne a sad inscription weares Last Line: "which with amazements, we may now reherse" Subject(s): "donne, John (1572-1631);epitaphs;poetry & Poets; EPITAPH: 1, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you die? - I died of everything Last Line: Slew me in turnand last of all came death. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 10, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My day has dawned and loud within my ears Last Line: Upon the field in francejour de ma vie! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness EPITAPH: 11, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life did not stint Last Line: This thirst of mine. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 12, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too soon Last Line: My grassy prison. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Night; Bedtime EPITAPH: 13, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke and called aloud but none replied Last Line: Dozed for an hour or sothen went to sleep. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sleep EPITAPH: 14, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wandering feet Last Line: Of every quest. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Peace; Rest EPITAPH: 15, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad wind shifts and stirs Last Line: Yet no wind grieves. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EPITAPH: 16, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His life was like white steel. A mind Last Line: Trusty watch about his sleep. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Sleep; Dead, The EPITAPH: 17, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered over seas. From one green glade Last Line: We might have never met.yet here we meet. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Wandering & Wanderers EPITAPH: 18, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now her golden self is gone Last Line: Such radiance forthand dead yet lives. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 19, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Humbly I lived but very proudly died Last Line: He left, but folded me beneath his wings. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 2. FOR A BLIND MAN, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On many a road, forlorn Last Line: To find in death my light? Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: 20, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A handful of wild thyme, a breath, a song Last Line: And then to die.what better could I do? Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 21, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity me, pray Last Line: Now I am dead. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Prayer; Dead, The EPITAPH: 22, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a name, a place, who now have none Last Line: On a grey slab is all I've had of fame! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fame; Graves; Dead, The; Reputation; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 23, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Break not my silence, trouble not my sleep Last Line: None knowsnor what death tells me now I'm dead. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The EPITAPH: 24, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is finished which was all delight Last Line: Rainbows of foam and bubbles of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 25, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scent of faded roses once a-bloom Last Line: I wakedthen slept with summer and her flowers. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 26, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All's done Last Line: A butterfly. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Solitude; Loneliness EPITAPH: 27, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My beauty was Last Line: Of air 'tis gone! Subject(s): Beauty; Epitaphs EPITAPH: 28, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew joy once and after could not bear Last Line: Delight? Poor men who know her not at all Subject(s): Epitaphs; Happiness; Joy; Delight EPITAPH: 29, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of me? He lived a span Last Line: Then died.no more?what more of any man? Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The EPITAPH: 3, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My burial place Last Line: Through the long dark. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Graves; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 30, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Year out year in, I took my daily pleasure Last Line: Death (whom I scarce believed in) sprang on me. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 31, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether this little Last Line: I know not. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship EPITAPH: 32, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As shining sand-drift Last Line: Whirl away. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Thought; Thinking EPITAPH: 33, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I died so long ago Last Line: Thus I sleep well. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 34, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because too proud almost to live or die Last Line: Over this mound of earth stumbled and fell. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect EPITAPH: 4, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though life was good Last Line: Have need of rest. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Rest; Sleep EPITAPH: 5, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mastered life and did bestride him well Last Line: But death's another matter. Here I fell. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 6, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neither of earth nor heaven here she lies Last Line: Poor troubled ashes, gentle and unwise. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise EPITAPH: 7, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely I lived and died: - let no footfall Last Line: Disturb me nowfor that were worse than all! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness EPITAPH: 8, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patient and bent he trod a thorny road Last Line: A little body under a great load. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: 9, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For long my feet Last Line: My feet for wings. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: ANN COOK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On a thursday she was born Last Line: And on a thursday died Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: ANN SOTHAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How loved how valued once avails thee not Last Line: Tis all thou art and all the proud shall be Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: ANNUNCIATION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motion swept the world aside, aghast to white nerve nets Last Line: Slow, from inside Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: CATHERINE BAKER (1778-1779), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah lovely child and art thou fled Last Line: So soon to join the silent dead Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH: ELEANOR BOYES (1758-1784), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "short was my race, long is my rest" Last Line: "god called me hence, it pleased him best" Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth EPITAPH: FOR A FICKLE MAN, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two women had these words engraved Last Line: And that his will be ever done Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: GORDON OF KHARTOUM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of men he would have raised to light he fell Last Line: The man of england circled by the sands. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: HENRY BROWN (1851-1861), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How soon I was cut down when innocent at play Last Line: The wind it blew a scaffold down and took my life away Subject(s): Death - Children;epitaphs; Death - Babies EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May! Be thou never graced with birds that sing Last Line: Mine only died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH: J. C. M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fountain of our sweetest, quick to spring Last Line: To gladden blue forgets him; near he hides. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: JAMES CHRISTOPHER WILSON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou our beloved and light of earth hast crossed Last Line: Through love to kindle in our souls the more. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Light; Dead, The EPITAPH: JOHN BUCKETT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: And is alas! Poor buckett gone Last Line: Still guarding stockbridge with thy sign Subject(s): Epitaphs;landlords & Tenants EPITAPH: JOHN HUGHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a faithful friend, a father dear" Last Line: An unfortunate husband lieth here Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: JOHN PRICE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Praises on tombs are trifles vainly spent Last Line: A man's good name is his own monument Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: JOHN ROWLEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All you that are young prepare to die Last Line: Wait a while and you'll follow me Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality EPITAPH: JOHN TROT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john trot, the friend of all mankind Last Line: But now they stand in every bodies way Subject(s): Bible; Epitaphs; Mythology EPITAPH: JUSTICE, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poet hipponax lies here Last Line: Now he enjoys (like his readers) sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hipponax (540 B.c.) EPITAPH: LADY C. M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To them that knew her, there is vital flame Last Line: So strong a spirit is not of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: LADY URSULA BAYNARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: God's goodnes made hir wise & well beseeming Last Line: "blest w' two babes, though death brought hir to this" Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: M.M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who call her mother and who calls her wife Last Line: Look on her grave and see not death but life. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH: ON HIMSELF, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, approach my urn--thou need'st not fear Last Line: Alas! The young, the gay is now no more! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The EPITAPH: RALPH BALDWYN (1671-1689), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: His early vertue took a pitying view Last Line: O' th' world and like it not and bid adieu Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth EPITAPH: SARAH EAMES (1815-1827), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here is a tender branch laid low Last Line: A sweeter flower could never blow Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth EPITAPH: THAW, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little clicks all night in the back lane there blackness Last Line: Anvil of deep decree Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers EPITAPH: THE EMPEROR FREDERICK OF OUR TIME, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With alfred and st. Louis he doth win Last Line: The ever-flowering common heart for home. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: THEOPHILUS BROOKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How blest is he who ne'er contents Last Line: Where men profanely talked Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: THOMAS HOWELS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Farewell my wife so dear Last Line: For you I thought the best Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH: THOMAS PEIRCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When his own watch was done on the last day Last Line: Until he rise again no more to die Subject(s): Clocks;epitaphs;time EPITAPH: THOMAS PORT (1805-1838), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bright rose the morn and vigorous rose young port Last Line: A mutilated corpse the sufferer lay Subject(s): Accidents;epitaphs EPITAPH: TO A FRIEND LOST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I remember, friend, whom lost I call Last Line: Partakers of a strife they joyed to share. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship; Loss EPITAPH: WILLIAM HOPKINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O youth repent Last Line: Was tane away Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality EPITAPH: ZION, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Murderous little world once our objects had gazes. Our lives Last Line: Who drank a bowl of elsewhere Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH; INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT ERECTED BY GENTLEMAN FOR HIS LADY, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my best beloved! Whose heavenly mind Last Line: My guide, my friend, my best beloved, farewell! Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH; ON MR. ROBERT PORT, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies he, whom the tyrant's rage Last Line: Honour, and hospitality. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH; ON MRS. MARY DRAPER, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, if thou cast thine eye Last Line: Alive, or 'tis impossible. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPHS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honest iago. When his breath was fled Last Line: That in unlovely earth takes root and grows. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPHS, by ORHAN VELI KANIK Poem Source First Line: Nothing made him suffer in this world Last Line: If only there were no parting Subject(s): Epitaphs; Muslims EPITATH ON AN ENGRAVER, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By death's favor Last Line: He ne'er will get translated to the skies. Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; Epitaphs FANNY MEADOWS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One, two, three' Last Line: And -- out goes she!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs FELTONS EPITAPH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Heere uninterr'd suspendes (though not to save Last Line: Contend to beare his bodie to his soule Subject(s): Epitaphs FOR AN EPITAPH AT FIESOLE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the four mimosas blend their shade Last Line: And he had lived enough when he had dried her tear. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) FOR KATRINA'S SUN-DIAL; IN HER GARDEN OF YADOO, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hours fly Last Line: Time is not. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time FOR KATRINA'S WINDOW; IN HER GARDEN OF YADDO, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the window's message Last Line: Let in every ray of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Epitaphs; Windows FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To me 'twas given to die; to thee 'tis given Last Line: Mark! How impartial is the will of heaven! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise FOR SIR JOHN VANBRUGH, ARCHITECT. AN EPIGRAMMICAL EPITAPH, by ABEL EVANS Poem Text First Line: Lie heavy on him, earth! For he Last Line: Laid many heavy loads on thee! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726) FUNERAL SONG FOR THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In its summer pride arrayed Last Line: Lays a garland on thy herse. Subject(s): Blessings; Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Epitaphs; Funerals; Grief; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Honor; Wales; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Welshmen; Welshwomen GEO-BESTIARY: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was commanded, in a dream naturally Last Line: 33. We'll all see god but not with our eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Epitaphs; Nightmares GEORGE DENHAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies the body of geordie denham Last Line: If ye saw him now ye wadna ken him Subject(s): Epitaphs GHAZALS: 9, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said the grizzly sat eating the sheep and when the bullet Last Line: Day crowds so that they'll indignantly topple my gravestone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Hunting; Dead, The; Hunters HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGETITON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, reading the anthology Last Line: Your act is vocal still. Men grow deaf Subject(s): Books; Epitaphs HAWARDEN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When comes the lighted day for men to read Last Line: Among us who celestial tasks has done. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Dead, The HERE LIES MY HUSBANDS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies my husbands; one, two, three Last Line: And to make things tidy, I adds his -- james. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs HIS OWN EPITAPH, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One aeschylus, athenian born Last Line: Who tried and found it good. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self I'LL BE YOUR EPITAPH, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over your dear dead heart I'll lift Last Line: But your dark dust will know. Subject(s): Epitaphs IDYLL 1. THE EPITAPH OF ADONIS, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I and the loves adonis dead deplore Last Line: For thou must wail again, and weep another year. Subject(s): Adonis; Epitaphs; Mythology - Classical IDYLL 3. EPITAPH FOR BION, by MOSCHUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully answer my groan, dark vales and dorian water Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Epitaphs IDYLL 3. THE EPITAPH OF BION, A LOVING HERDSMAN, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan! Last Line: Could I charm dis with songs, I too would sing for thee. Variant Title(s): Lament For Bion Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Cyclops; Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IL IMMATURO; EPITAPH, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave youth, whose too too hasty fate Last Line: And this cold stone had ne'er said, here he lies. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The IN CHRIST CHURCH, BRISTOL, ON THOMAS TURNER, by FRANCIS JEFFREY Poem Text First Line: Like to a baker's oven is the grave Last Line: Though set like dough, they shall be drawn like bread. Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Epitaphs IN MEMORIAM: TAMMY MESSER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies the banes of tammy messer Last Line: And died of drinking ardent spirits Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;epitaphs IN PETERBOROUGH CHURCHYARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "reader, pass on, nor idly waste your time" Last Line: And what I was in no affair of yours Subject(s): Epitaphs INSCRIPTION (FOR THE MATRON CLAUDIA, C. 135 - 120 B.C.), by PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Short is my say, o stranger. Stay and read Last Line: She kept house: span her wool. I have said. Farewell Alternate Author Name(s): Terence Subject(s): Epitaphs INSCRIPTION IN NETHER STOREY CHURCH IN MEMORY OF RICHARD CAMPLIN, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife Last Line: And the voice tremble with a last farewell! Subject(s): Epitaphs INSCRIPTION: EPITAPH ON KING JOHN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John rests below. A man more infamous Last Line: For they must bear the burthen of thy crime. Subject(s): Epitaphs; John, King Of England (1167-1216); Lackland, John INTENDED FOR A STONE IN THE GROUNDS OF RYDAL MOUNT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these fair vales hath many a tree Last Line: As one of the departed Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self ISAAC MEEK, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hook-nosed was I , loose-lipped; greed fixed its gaze Last Line: Stoop close: I have inherited the earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs J. T., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's jane taylor Last Line: Dear jane taylor. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs JACK AND JOAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Interred beneath this marble stone Last Line: And so they lived; and so they died. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Children; Death; Epitaphs; Fear; Life; Love; Childhood; Dead, The JACOB TODD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here be the ashes of jacob todd Last Line: He bedded for ye judgement day. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Sexton Subject(s): Epitaphs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers JOB HODSON AND HIS FOUR WIVES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests in peace, rebecca anne Last Line: And him, the husband of the above. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs JOHN BUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies john bun Last Line: "but wood would not rhyme with gun, but bun would" Subject(s): Epitaphs JOHN SEVERIN WALGREN, 1874-1962, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees die of thirst or cold Last Line: She moves us to terror. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Death; Epitaphs; Loss; Nature; Dead, The JOHN SIMPSON, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is that john simpson?' Last Line: Ask again.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs JOHN VIRGIN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou, stranger, be john virgin, then the Last Line: Six fathom in the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs JOHNNIE DOW'S EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Wha lies here? Last Line: "ay, mon, but I'm dead now" Subject(s): Epitaphs JULES RAOUL DUBOIS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sleeps a frenchman: would I could Last Line: One word were all sufficient -- peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs JUST THINK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just think! Some night the stars will gleam Last Line: A star-gleam on a stone. Subject(s): Epitaphs LIEGEWOMAN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may not wear immortal leaves Last Line: "the passion of him, soul and thew." Subject(s): Epitaphs; Women LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY BURNS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who of rankine sang, lies stiff and dead Last Line: Alas! Alas! A devilish change indeed. Subject(s): Epitaphs M.O.R.S., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, where I at peace do lie Last Line: Leave me to my own company! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs MILENA WILETT; I YR. OLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thy mother strives in patient trust Last Line: Her baby's sleeping now Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women MOCK EPITAPH ON MR. AND MRS. ESTLIN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While far from home Last Line: For so the fates have pleased. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Epitaphs MY OWN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaden with earth, as earth by such as I Last Line: To waken in fit time what herein sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self MY OWN EPITAPH, by MARY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: Here lies a true maid, deformed and old Last Line: Believing she lost not her soul with her breath. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self N.F., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See now, if thou have any heed Last Line: Lest the unsleeping find the wake! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs NAT VOLE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lieth nat vole Last Line: He'd not listeners seek! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs NED GUN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where be sam potter now? Last Line: No: nor ned gunn. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs NED VAUGHAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd, ned vaughan Last Line: And shepherd in sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Shepherd Subject(s): Epitaphs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers O.A., by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who: and how: and where: and when Last Line: Still with their last breath, why? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here souter hood in death does sleep Last Line: He'll haud it weel thegither. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Souter Hood Subject(s): Epitaphs ON A FAVOURITE DOG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou who passest on the path Last Line: Likewise engraved those words on my tomb Subject(s): Animals;death - Animals;dogs;epitaphs ON A FOOL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies the earl of suffolk's fool Last Line: "dickys enough are still behind, / to laugh at by-and-by" Subject(s): Epitaphs;fools; Idiots ON A MALTESE WATCH-DOG, by TYMNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the stone says it holds the white dog Last Line: Voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs ON A SCOTCH COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light lay the earth on billy's breast Last Line: His scull will prop it under. Variant Title(s): Epigram On A Noted Coxcomb Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fools; Vanity; Idiots ON A TUFT-HUNTER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, lament, sir isaac heard Last Line: Than sav'd in vulgar company. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Turf-hunter Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vanity ON A WAG IN MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament him, mauchline husbands a' Last Line: Perhaps he was your father! Variant Title(s): Epitaph For James Smith;epitaph On A Wag In Mauchline Subject(s): Epitaphs; Scotland ON A YOUNG LADY WHO DIED UNMARRIED, by AARON HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ripe in virtue, green in years Last Line: "and hides her blushes in his breast." Subject(s): Epitaphs ON AN INFANT, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath, a sleeping infant lies Last Line: "had been as short as thine." Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Death - Babies ON ANDREW TURNER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In seventeen hundred and forty-nine Last Line: An' ca'd it andrew turner. Subject(s): Epitaphs ON HEARING THE NEWS FROM VENICE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak Last Line: When song is murk from springs of turbid source. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON HIS WIFE, AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou need'st no tomb, my wife, for thou Last Line: Shall there be seen as in the book of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Epitaphs; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON JOHN DOVE [JOHNNY DOW], INNKEEPER OF MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies johnny pidgeon Last Line: And port was celestial glory. Subject(s): Epitaphs ON JOHN DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER, WHO DIED IN THE TWENTY-FIRST YEAR OF AGE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intent to hear, and bounteous to bestow Last Line: These honours, egerton, were all thy own! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The ON MR. CRUIKSHANK OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honest will to heaven's away Last Line: In english nane e'er kent them. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON MRS. DOVE, WIFE TO THE REVEREND DR. HENRY DOVE; EPITAPH, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thus - and thus farewell to all Last Line: Are soonest ravish'd from our eyes. Subject(s): Epitaphs ON PETER ROBINSON, by FRANCIS JEFFREY Poem Text First Line: Here lies the preacher, judge, and poet, peter Last Line: Who broke the laws of god, and man and metre. Subject(s): Epitaphs ON PRINCE FREDERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies fred Last Line: "who was alive and is dead, / there's no more to be said" Subject(s): Epitaphs ON READING COLERIDGE'S EPITAPH, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit! So oft in radiant freedom soaring Last Line: One lesson breathing thence profound humility! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Humility; Poetry & Poets ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sacred relics, which your marble keep Last Line: His pious widow consecrates this tomb. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fairborne, Sir Palmes (1634-1680); Graves; Westminster Abbey; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by FRANCIS FAWKES Poem Text First Line: Short and precarious is the life of man Last Line: And bloomed renewed in everlasting life. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Immortality; Youth; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MISTRESS ELIZABETH FILMER; AN ELEGIACAL EPITAPH, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that shall live awhile before Last Line: When all but very virtue's dead. Subject(s): Epitaphs ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE 1818, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death has gone up into our palaces Last Line: May best deserve our love. Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Epitaphs; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Grief; Marriage; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE LAMENTED DEATH OF MY DEAR UNCLE, MR. RADCLIFF STANHOPE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the unsteady state of human things Last Line: It knows I truly weep these obsequies. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Uncles ON THE PASSING OF KING GEORGE V, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When time has sifted motives, passions, deeds Last Line: And ventured to a nobler marching word. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Memory; Prayer; Rest; Dead, The ON THE REVEREND JONATHAN DOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies the reverend jonathan doe Last Line: I can't congratulate the devil Subject(s): Epitaphs ON TWIN-SISTERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fair marble, tell to future days" Last Line: That death mistook them both for one Subject(s): Death;epitaphs;twins; "dead, The; ONE DAY THE BISHOP OFFERED TO GIVE A GENTLEMAN A GOOSE ..., by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies edmund keene lord bishop of chester Last Line: And this upon his lady-- Subject(s): Epitaphs; Geese; Keene, Edward. Bishop Of Chester POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: AN EPITAPH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some leave their home for private discontent Last Line: Which was thy good, and true religion. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Exiles; Grief; Home; Knights & Knighthood; Sorrow; Sadness REQUIEM, by SHELBY MARTINEAU DODSON Poem Text First Line: There is no death, there is but change Last Line: There is but life -- there are no dead. Subject(s): Epitaphs REQUIESCAT, by FRANK FREDERICK CLOUSER Poem Text First Line: Her grave lies high where wind and sun Last Line: Yet who is blessed, she or we? Subject(s): Epitaphs REST IS SILENCE', by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My name was -' 'does it matter?' 'my country -' 'can it profit?' Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Epitaphs RICHARD HALLADAY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each in place as god did 'gree Last Line: Ask again -- ask again! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs SAM LOVER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor sam lover Last Line: His wildness over. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs SAMMIE GURDON, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe, my friend, thou'rt main athirst' Last Line: Will warmly welcome thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs SCRIPT MIST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hang on to moment, naked, fair Last Line: In the great carpentry Subject(s): Epitaphs; Screen Writing; Writing & Writers; Motion Pictures - Play Writing SECOND EPITAPH, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: On the gloomy banks of the melas, at tomasson in pamphylia Last Line: Seen my tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Farewell; Graves; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones SILAS DWIGHT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though hautboy and basoon may break Last Line: And stop out shrill, this happy morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs SIR WILLOUGHBY BRANKSOME, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Alack! Last Line: What more is left to say? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs SON OF MAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of man, tell me Last Line: Since thou art thyself as I am. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL; EPITAPH FOR 'LYONNELL LOCKIER', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lockyer lies interr'd: enough his name Last Line: "this verse is lost, his pills embalm him safe / to future times without an epitaph" Subject(s): Epitaphs;physicians; Doctors SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RICHARD BONE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I first came to spoon river Last Line: Or because he is influenced to hide it. Subject(s): Epitaphs SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EPITAPH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind reader! Take your choice to cry or laugh Last Line: Ten thousand just as fit for him as you. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Epitaphs SUSANNA HARBERT, SPINSTER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let upon my bosom be Last Line: Will sweeten this ancient haunt of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs SUSANNAH FRY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sleep I Last Line: Under the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs SUSANNAH PROUT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies my wife Last Line: Come back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs TAKE WARNING FROM THIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here lies, cut down like unripe fruit" Last Line: Anny dominy eighteen forty Subject(s): Coffee;epitaphs THE BOY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finger on lip I ever stand Last Line: Stooping to speak to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs THE EPITAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not dead, but sleeping. So it read Last Line: "be man enough to own it." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Epitaphs THE EPITAPH OF RAPHAEL, by PIETRO BEMBO Poem Text First Line: Here lies that raphael whose art made nature dread Last Line: To seem half dead, he living, and half to die, he dead. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Raphael (1483-1520) THE INN: AN OLD EPITAPH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Post-haste we ride the road of men Last Line: Who soonest goes hath least to pay. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hotels; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE KNIGHT'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the church which pisa, great and free Last Line: "and love, and music, his inglorious life." Subject(s): Epitaphs; Knights & Knighthood THE LAUGHING WILLOW, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To see the kaiser's epitaph Last Line: Would make a weeping willow laugh. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Laughter; Willow Trees THE MIDGET, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just a span and half a span Last Line: He keeps his own small darkened house. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE AMBER SNUFF-BOX, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box Last Line: Laughed, and the statesman's reputation grew. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hearts; Life; Tears; Youth THE POET'S OWN EPITAPH, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies the son of battus Last Line: Friendly laughter with his wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Epitaphs; Self THE SPANIARD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laid in this english ground Last Line: To cry his sins so far from home! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs THE SUN-DIAL AT WELLS COLLEGE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow by my finger cast Last Line: The now on which the shadow stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time THE VIRGIN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed mary, pity me Last Line: To shower a lifetime's sorrows on. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs THE WIDOW (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou a widow? Then, my friend Last Line: Dust of thy loved one rest near by! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs; Widows & Widowers THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is topsy-turvy turn'd Last Line: "long life to the king!"" shouting gladly." Subject(s): Epitaphs; Germany; Heroism; Germans; Heroes; Heroines THOMAS LOGGE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies thomas logge - a rascally dogge Last Line: Should be at him again. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs THOMAS YARNTON OF TARLTON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of those old men fearing no man Last Line: Of thomas yarnton of tarlton dumbly. Subject(s): Epitaphs THONMAS GROAT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All men are mortal, and I know't Last Line: Gone for to seek his crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs THREE SCORE YEARS I LIVED, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three score years I lived; and then Last Line: Hence, this unutterable darke. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs THREE SISTERS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three sisters rest beneath Last Line: And adelaide. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sisters TIMOCREON, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After much eating, drinking, speaking ill Last Line: Of others, here timocreon lies still. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Epitaphs TIMOTHY BLACKSTONE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, have care Last Line: And weep for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs TO A POET ON HIS EPITAPH FOR THE FALLEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splendidly dying, yet their fame Last Line: To save their splendour in a rhyme. Subject(s): Epitaphs TO HASEKAWA, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps it doesn't matter that you died Last Line: But life has told on you. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Life; Truth; Dead, The TOM HEAD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rang yon bells a score of years Last Line: As made it seem to sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs TRANSLATION OF AN INSCRIPTION RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN SAMOS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turinna, famed for every grace Last Line: Revive from such distress again. Subject(s): Daughters; Epitaphs; Fame; Parents; Reputation; Parenthood TWO EPITAPHS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love lingers here while life has fled' Last Line: Then hail, o death, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The UPON BEN JONSON [JOHNSON], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies jonson [johnson] with the rest Last Line: Of his glory. So farewell. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets UPON HIS KINSWOMAN MRS. M.S., by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a virgin, and as sweet Last Line: You'l do my neice abundant honour. Subject(s): Epitaphs UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must noble hastings immaturely die Last Line: Monument is his spouses marble brest. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Friendship; Life; Soul; Dead, The VERSES TO RANKINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae day, as death, that gruesome carl Last Line: And quickly stoppit rankine's breath. Subject(s): Epitaphs W. H. EHEU!, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this stone does william hazlitt lie Last Line: He died like one who dared not hope to live. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hazlitt, William (1778-1830) WILLIAM HACKLE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's an old taylour, rest his eye Last Line: Needle and thredde put by. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs WILLIAM PARR, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that lies here was mortal olde Last Line: In seventeen hundred sixty three. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Epitaphs WORDSWORTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls Last Line: The hidden fountain of recovered joy. 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