Passenger, stay, and notice take of her Whom this sepulchral marble doth inter: For Sir John Stanhope's daughter, and his heir, By his first wife, a Beresford, lies here. Her husband of a noble house was, one Everywhere for his worths beloved and known. One only son she left, whom we presage A grace to his family, and to our age. She was too good to live, and young to die, Yet stayed not to dispute with destiny But (soon as she received the summons given), Sent her fair soul to wait on God in Heaven. Here, what was mortal of her turns to dust, To rise a glorious body with the just. Now thou may'st go; but take along with thee (To guide thy life and death) her memory. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BROTHERS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS TO COLIN CLOUT by ANTHONY MUNDAY CA' THE YOWES TO THE KNOWES' by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 12 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 5 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |