Death & Dying
On the Tomb of Queen Anne
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Death & Dying
A queen who snatcht from Marlboro's hand
The bay-girt baton of command
Lies here : and courtiers now malign
The creature whom they call'd divine ;
Yet none among them has denied
That she was sober when she died.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “On the Tomb of Queen Anne.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/269/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “On the Tomb of Queen Anne.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/269/.
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