On A Good Man (From The Greek)
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Traveller, regret not me; for thou shalt find
Just cause of sorrow none in my decease,
Who, dying, children's children left behind,
And with one wife lived many a year in peace;
Three virtuous youths espoused my daughters three,
And oft their infants in my bosom lay,
Nor saw I one of all derived from me,
Touch'd with disease, or torn by death away.
Their duteous hands my funeral rites bestow'd,
And me, by blameless manners fitted well
To seek it, sent to the serene abode
Where shades of pious men forever dwell.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 513 |
Words | 95 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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