Death & Dying
Epigram 93. An Epitaph on my most honour'd Kinsman Colonel Ralph Sneyd, who dy'd in the Isle of Man about the 40th year of his Age
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Here lyes a body that gave Lodging to
A Soul as noble as the world did know;
It was well-organ'd, handsome, manly, and
Of equal structure to the best o'th Land:
Yet was unworthy of the Soul was given,
And therefore dy'd cause that fled back to Heaven.
Here Colonel Ralph Sneyd doth lie; In brief
The joy of mankind living, now the grief.
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MLA
Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 93. An Epitaph on my most honour'd Kinsman Colonel Ralph Sneyd, who dy'd in the Isle of Man about the 40th year of his Age.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/137/.
Chicago
Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 93. An Epitaph on my most honour'd Kinsman Colonel Ralph Sneyd, who dy'd in the Isle of Man about the 40th year of his Age.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/137/.
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