Classic and Contemporary Poetry

EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN 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

STAY, Stranger, stay, and drop one Tear;
She allways weeps that layd him here;
And will do till her Race is run:
His Father's fifth, her only Son.