English poem
Epitaph. on Mrs Corbet, Who Died of a Cancer in Her Breast.
by Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
Here rests a woman, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense: No conquests she, but o'er herself, desired, No arts essay'd, but not to be admired. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinced that virtue only is our own. So unaffected, so composed a mind; So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so refined; Heaven, as its purest gold, by tortures tried; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.
More by Alexander Pope
- Epitaph. on General Henry Withers, in Westminster Abbey, 1729.
- Epitaph. on James Craggs, Esq. in Westminster Abbey.
- Epitaph. on Mr Elijah Fenton, at Easthamstead, in Berks, 1730.
- Epitaph. on Mr Gay, in Westminster Abbey, 1732.
- Epitaph. on Sir Godfrey Kneller, in Westminster Abbey, 1723.
- Epitaph. on Sir William Trumbull.
- Epitaph. on the Hon. Simon Harcourt, Only Son of the Lord Chancellor
- Epitaph. on the Monument of the Honourable Egbert Digby, and His Sister