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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heroes and kings! Your distance keep Last Line: Let horace blush, and virgil too. Subject(s): Twickenham, England; Westminster Abbey | |||
HEROES and kings! your distance keep, In peace let one poor poet sleep, Who never flattered folks like you: Let Horace blush, and Virgil too. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by JOHN BETJEMAN ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY by JOHN DRYDEN ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALFRED TENNYSON ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT [IN WESTMINSTER] by SAMUEL WESLEY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH POET'S CORNER by ALFRED AUSTIN IN POET'S CORNER by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715 by ALEXANDER POPE |
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