Death & Dying
Epistle LXI. An Epitaph upon Mrs. G.
From Songs and Other Poems (1664)
Death & Dying
Who ever knows or hears whose sacred bones
Rest here within these monumental stones;
How ear a mother, and how sweet a wife,
If he has bowels, cannot for his life,
But on her ashes must some tears distill,
For if men will not weep, this marble will.
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Brome, Alexander. “Epistle LXI. An Epitaph upon Mrs. G.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brome/165/.
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Brome, Alexander. “Epistle LXI. An Epitaph upon Mrs. G.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brome/165/.
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