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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT OF DOROTHY, LADY HUBERT AT LANGLEY, by ANNE KING First Line: Reader upon this field of marble see Last Line: Being both the dead's, and living's monument. Subject(s): Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The | |||
Reader upon this field of Marble see How Death and Love Contend for masterie Vaunting her spoils Death warn's Thee, Here lies one of her Choice peeces of destruction For Wit, Forme, Sweetness, So sublime that higher Her Dart nor Malice ever did aspire. Love from a Friend (scarse willing to surviue But to preserve the Other's Fame alive A Sister so endeer'd in Blood and Heart She felt the stroke and still weep's for ye smart) Inform's thee (if Thou'lt help) these Virtues, Fate Cannot consume, or time obliterate, But by Thine Eyes embalmed She will lie Living and fresh till Death Herself must die Then lend some Tears for mine must need's be spent Being both the Dead's, and Living's Monument. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND UNDER MR. HALES PICTURE by ANNE KING WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS by COUNTEE CULLEN PROTESTS (AFTER A PAINTING BY HUGO BALLIN) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER |
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