Death & Dying
On the Lady Arabella
From Poems, ed. O. Gilchrist (1807)
Death & Dying
How do I thanke thee, Death, and blesse thy power
That I have past the guard, and scaped the Tower!
And now my pardon is my epitaph,
And a small coffin my poore carkasse hath.
For at thy charge both soule and body were
Enlarged at last, secured from hope and feare;
That among saints, this amongst kings is laid,
And what my birth did claim, my death hath paid.
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Corbet, Richard. “On the Lady Arabella.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/corbet/3/.
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Corbet, Richard. “On the Lady Arabella.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/corbet/3/.
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