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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH ON MY DEAR COUSIN GERMAN MRS. OLIVE COTTON, by ASTON COCKAYNE First Line: Passenger, stay, and notice take of her Last Line: (to guide thy life and death) her memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Cokayne, Aston; Cokain, Aston Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Cotton, Olive Stanhope (1612-1650) | |||
Passenger, stay, and notice take of her Whom this sepulchral marble doth inter: For Sir John Stanhope's daughter, and his heir, By his first wife, a Beresford, lies here. Her husband of a noble house was, one Everywhere for his worths beloved and known. One only son she left, whom we presage A grace to his family, and to our age. She was too good to live, and young to die, Yet stayed not to dispute with destiny But (soon as she received the summons given), Sent her fair soul to wait on God in Heaven. Here, what was mortal of her turns to dust, To rise a glorious body with the just. Now thou may'st go; but take along with thee (To guide thy life and death) her memory. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY FRIEND THOMAS RANDOLPH, ON HIS PLAY 'THE MUSE'S LOOKING-GLASS' by ASTON COCKAYNE MAKING THE BED by KAREN SWENSON THE BLESSED DAMOZEL by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI FALLING ASLEEP by SIEGFRIED SASSOON THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH by WALT WHITMAN VERS LIBRE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS TO BARON DE STONNE WITH AIKIN'S ESSAYS ON SONG-WRITING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD BATTALION IN REST by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN MORTALITY by GAMALIEL BRADFORD DARTMOOR: SUNSET AT CHAGFORD: HOMO LOQVITUR by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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