English poem
Epitaph. for One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey.
by Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
Heroes and kings! your distance keep: In peace let one poor poet sleep, Who never flatter'd folks like you: Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
More by Alexander Pope
- Epitaph On Lord Coningsby.
- Epitaph VII. On The Monument Of The Honourable Egbert Digby, And His Sister Mary.
- Epitaph XIV. On Edmund Duke Of Buckingham, Who Died In The Nineteenth Year Of His Age, 1735.
- Epitaph. Another, on the Same.
- Epitaph. Intended for Mr Rowe, in Westminster Abbey.
- Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey.
- Epitaph. on Charles Earl of Dorset, in the Church of Withyam, in Sussex.
- Epitaph. on Dr Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, Who Died in Exile at Paris, 1732.