" A father, husband, brother sorrowing weep, / Whose hearts engraven thy fair virtues keep."
— Shaw, Cuthbert (1738-1771)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Prnted for T. Becket [etc., Typo?]
Date
1776
Metaphor
" A father, husband, brother sorrowing weep, / Whose hearts engraven thy fair virtues keep."
Metaphor in Context
Far in thy life below that high sphere plac'd
Where grandeur dwells with wealth and titles grac'd,
Fulfilling in the rank bestow'd by fate
The silent virtues of thy humbler state;
Like the fair rose that blooms and falls to earth
In the same vale which first beheld its birth,
Unseen, unknown beyond that narrow space
Where heaven to thee indulgent fixt thy place;
Thou art not now bewailed in thy death
By pride's vain pomp or flattery's idle breath:
Thy memory more grateful praise obtains,
When o'er the grave which hides thy cold remains
A father, husband, brother sorrowing weep,
Whose hearts engraven thy fair virtues keep.
Where grandeur dwells with wealth and titles grac'd,
Fulfilling in the rank bestow'd by fate
The silent virtues of thy humbler state;
Like the fair rose that blooms and falls to earth
In the same vale which first beheld its birth,
Unseen, unknown beyond that narrow space
Where heaven to thee indulgent fixt thy place;
Thou art not now bewailed in thy death
By pride's vain pomp or flattery's idle breath:
Thy memory more grateful praise obtains,
When o'er the grave which hides thy cold remains
A father, husband, brother sorrowing weep,
Whose hearts engraven thy fair virtues keep.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in "heart" and "engrav" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
03/08/2005
