Death & Dying
Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an Itinerant Musician
From Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett (1855)
Death & Dying
Phillips! whose touch harmonious could remove
The pangs of guilty power and hapless love,
Rest here; distress'd by poverty no more,
Find here that calm thou gav'st so oft before;
Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine,
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
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Johnson, Samuel. “Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an Itinerant Musician.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_samuel/16/.
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Johnson, Samuel. “Epitaph on Claude Phillips, an Itinerant Musician.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_samuel/16/.
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