A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
To the Reverend------on his visiting
a sick Person, 1729. |
A Miscellany of Poems | ||
To the Reverend------on his visiting a sick Person, 1729.
This life oppress'd with grief and care,The joys of Heaven so well you paint;
You seem no mortal trav'ling there,
But rather some returning saint.
Now Death that King of Terrors wears
A look so mild, I cou'd resign
The pleasing joys of youthfull years,
To make the poor man's sickness mine.
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If yet some marks of grief we find
'Tis not that their relation goes,
But that they're forced to stay behind.
A Miscellany of Poems | ||