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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET WRITTEN BY FRA. GORGIA WHO WAS BORN AS ... MOTHER TO HER GRAVE, by FRA. GORGIA
First Line: Unhappy I came from my mother's womb
Last Line: For I, in death's cold arms, receiv'd my birth.
Subject(s): Birth; Death - Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The
First Line: Unhappy I came from my mother's womb
Last Line: For I, in death's cold arms, receiv'd my birth.
Subject(s): Birth; Death - Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The
UNHAPPY I came from my Mother's womb,
As she, Oh blessed She! who gave me breath,
Having receiv'd the fatal stroke of Death,
By weeping friends was carried to her Tomb.
The sorrow I exprest, and grievous cries,
Love's tribute were, for her to Heav'n was gone,
My coffin, and my cradle, both were one,
And at her sunset, mine began to rise.
Wretch, how I quake to think on that sad day!
Which both for Life and Death at once made way;
Being gave the son, and mother turn'd to earth.
Alas, I die! Not that Life hastes so fast,
But that to me each minute seems the last,
For I, in Death's cold arms, receiv'd my Birth.
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