Epitaphium Erotii
HERE lies Erotion, whom at six years old
Fate pilfered. Stranger (when I too am cold,
Who shall succeed me in my rural field),
To this small spirit annual honours yield!
Bright be thy hearth, hale be thy babes, I crave
And this, in thy green farm, the only grave.
(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)Related poetry:
- Edmundi Trotii Epitaphium Charissimo Filio Edmundo Trotio Posuimus Pater & Mater Frustra superstites. Legite Parentes, vanissimus hominum ordo, Figuli Filiorum, Substructores Hominum, Fartores […]...
- TO LAURELS A funeral stone Or verse, I covet none; But only crave Of you that I may have A sacred laurel […]...
- The Color of the Grave is Green The Color of the Grave is Green The Outer Grave I mean You would not know it from the Field […]...
- When I Came Last to Ludlow When I came last to Ludlow Amidst the moonlight pale, Two friends kept step beside me, Two honest friends and […]...
- Requiem Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, […]...
- First Sight Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but […]...
- Winter Nightfall The day begins to droop, Its course is done: But nothing tells the place Of the setting sun. The hazy […]...
- Grand-Pa's Whim While for me gapes the greedy grave It don’t make sense That I should have a crazy crave To paint […]...
- Jessie WHEN Jessie comes with her soft breast, And yields the golden keys, Then is it as if God caress’d Twin […]...
- Petropolis From a fearful height, a wandering light, But does a star glitter like this, crying? Transparent star, wandering light Your […]...
- Snail Poem Make my grave shape of heart so like a flower be free aired & handsome felt, Grave root pillow, tung […]...
- Colors Passing Through Us Purple as tulips in May, mauve Into lush velvet, purple As the stain blackberries leave On the lips, on the […]...
- Unlyric Love Song It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first: To offer you now at last my least […]...
- In Lupum BEYOND the gates thou gav’st a field to till; I have a larger on my window-sill. A farm, d’ye say? […]...
- 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh You can’t run Radio Shack programs In its disc drive. Nor can a Commodore 64 Drive […]...
- Churchill's Grave I stood beside the grave of him who blazed The comet of a season, and I saw The humblest of […]...
- Fern Hill Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass […]...
- 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns […]...
- A catchy phrase It was called Farm Fantastic, a catchy phrase, And potentially a day’s wasted sweat. Even after the event I can’t […]...
- The Red Blaze is the Morning The Red Blaze is the Morning The Violet is Noon The Yellow Day is falling And after that is none […]...
- December At Yase You said, that October, In the tall dry grass by the orchard When you chose to be free, “Again someday, […]...
- At leisure is the Soul At leisure is the Soul That gets a Staggering Blow The Width of Life before it spreads Without a thing […]...
- They called me to the Window, for They called me to the Window, for ” ‘Twas Sunset” Some one said I only saw a Sapphire Farm And […]...
- THE NEW REMORSE The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing […]...
- How many schemes may die How many schemes may die In one short Afternoon Entirely unknown To those they most concern The man that was […]...
- The Manor Farm THE rock-like mud unfroze a little, and rills Ran and sparkled down each side of the road Under the catkins […]...
- Peace Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave, Let me once know. I sought thee in a secret cave, […]...
- At His Grave LEAVE me a little while alone, Here at his grave that still is strown With crumbling flower and wreath; The […]...
- Somewhere upon the general Earth Somewhere upon the general Earth Itself exist Today The Magic passive but extant That consecrated me Indifferent Seasons doubtless play […]...
- Martha “Once…Once upon a time…” Over and over again, Martha would tell us her stories, In the hazel glen. Hers were […]...
- Come down, O Maid COME down, O maid, from yonder mountain height: What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang), In height and cold, […]...
- The Princess: A Medley: As thro' the land As thro’ the land at eve we went, And pluck’d the ripen’d ears, We fell out, my wife and I, […]...
- Psalm 8 part 1 v.1,2, paraphrased. L. M. The hosanna of children. Almighty Ruler of the skies, Through the wide earth thy name is […]...
- 547. Verses to Collector Mitchell FRIEND of the Poet, tried and leal, Wha, wanting thee, might beg or steal; Alake, alake, the meikle deil Wi’ […]...
- No Man can compass a Despair No Man can compass a Despair As round a Goalless Road No faster than a Mile at once The Traveller […]...
- May 24, 1980 I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, Carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, Lived […]...
- Barry Holden The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp Set fire to the house They were trying Dr. Duval For the murder […]...
- In The Green And Gallant Spring IN the green and gallant Spring, Love and the lyre I thought to sing, And kisses sweet to give and […]...
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage […]...
- These are the Signs to Nature's Inns These are the Signs to Nature’s Inns Her invitation broad To Whosoever famishing To taste her mystic Bread These are […]...