Death & Dying
The Heroine. 1676: Her Epitaph
From Carolina, or Loyal Poems (1683)
Death & Dying
Here Brass and Marble are but vainly spent;
Her Name, to them, will be a Monument.
A lasting Fame Posterity must give,
Whilst Belvoir, Mountague, and Rutland live.
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Shipman, Thomas. “The Heroine. 1676: Her Epitaph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shipman/88/.
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Shipman, Thomas. “The Heroine. 1676: Her Epitaph.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shipman/88/.
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