Social Commentaries

Parody on an Epitaph

by Thomas Gray 1716–1771

From Works, ed. Gosse, vol. I (1884)

Social Commentaries

Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,
She swept, she hiss'd, she ripen'd and grew rough,
At Broom, Pendragon, Appleby and Brough.

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Gray, Thomas. “Parody on an Epitaph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gray/34/.

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