Death & Dying

Her Epitaph (Queen Elizabeth)

by Anne Bradstreet c. 1612–1672

From Several Poems (1678)

Death & Dying

Here sleeps THE Queen, this is the Royal Bed,
Of th' Damask Rose, sprung from the white and red,
Whose sweet perfume fills the all-filling Air:
This Rose is wither'd, once so lovely fair.
On neither tree did grow such Rose before,
The greater was our gain, our loss the more.

MLA

Bradstreet, Anne. “Her Epitaph (Queen Elizabeth).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bradstreet/17/.

Chicago

Bradstreet, Anne. “Her Epitaph (Queen Elizabeth).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bradstreet/17/.

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