English poem
Epitaph. on the Hon. Simon Harcourt, Only Son of the Lord Chancellor
by Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
HARCOURT, AT THE CHURCH OF STANTON HARCOURT, IN OXFORDSHIRE, 1720.
To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near; Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear: Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
How vain is reason, eloquence how weak! If Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak. Oh, let thy once-loved friend inscribe thy stone, And, with a father's sorrows, mix his own!
More by Alexander Pope
- Epitaph. on Mr Gay, in Westminster Abbey, 1732.
- Epitaph. on Mrs Corbet, Who Died of a Cancer in Her Breast.
- Epitaph. on Sir Godfrey Kneller, in Westminster Abbey, 1723.
- Epitaph. on Sir William Trumbull.
- Epitaph. on the Monument of the Honourable Egbert Digby, and His Sister
- Extemporaneous Lines
- Extemporaneous Lines On A Portrait Of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Painted By Kneller.
- Four Pastoral Eclogues II