English poem
EPIGRAPH, ON THE GRAVE, A BEAUTIFUL POEM, so called
by John Brand (1743–1808)
When EPITAPHS, Etch'd upon Brass, Shall quit their worn Charge, and deeline; And Time the tall Tablets erase, Where Fame's gilded Flatt'ries shine:
The Lines of this Truth-letter's GRAVE, (Where Frailty distills the sad Tear,) Just Judgment and Merit shall save, And MEM'RY transmitted, revere.
More by John Brand
- AN ELEGY ON A PILE of SACRED RUINS
- Conscience
- ELEGIAC REFLECTIONS, Wrote in the VAULT of ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, NEWCASTLE
- FRAGMENT, Supposed to have been written among the RUINS of TINMOUTH CASTLE and MONASTERY, NORTHUMBERLAND
- MIRA's DESPAIR, An ELEGY
- Ode to Peace
- ODE, FOR THE NATIVITY of the MESSIAH
- On an upright stone in St. Andrew's Church-yard