(AND OF HIS SISTER MARY, ERECTED BY THEIR FATHER THE LORD DIGBY, IN THE CHURCH OF SHERBORNE IN DORSETSHIRE, 1727) Go! fair Example of untainted youth, Of modest wisdom, and pacifick truth: Compos'd in suff'rings, and in joy sedate, Good without noise, without pretension great. Just of thy word, in ev'ry thought sincere, Who knew no wish but what the world might hear: Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind: Go live! for heav'ns Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine. And thou blest Maid! attendant on his doom, Pensive hast follow'd to the silent tomb, Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore, Not parted long, and now to part no more! Go then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And till we share your joys, forgive our grief; These little rites, a Stone, a Verse, receive, 'Tis all a Father, all a Friend can give! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NIGHT AND DAY: 4 by ISAAC ROSENBERG A MILLION YOUNG WORKMEN, 1915 by CARL SANDBURG THE POPPY-LAND EXPRESS by EDGAR WADE ABBOT JIM BLUDSO [OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE] by JOHN MILTON HAY MARY MAGDALENE by GEORGE HERBERT TO THE RIVER CHARLES by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ODE TO SILENCE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 1 by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |