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Poem by George Gordon Byron


Epitaph


Posterity will ne’er survey
	A nobler grave than this;
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
	Stop traveller, * *

January 2, 1820

George Gordon Byron


George Gordon Byron's other poems:
  1. The Spell Is Broke, the Charm Is Flown!
  2. To Florence
  3. Churchill’s Grave
  4. On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School
  5. To a Lady (This Band, which bound thy yellow hair)


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Samuel Coleridge Epitaph ("Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God")
  • Percy Shelley Epitaph ("These are two friends whose lives were undivided") 1822
  • Abraham Cowley Epitaph ("Underneath this marble stone")
  • Katherine Philips Epitaph ("What on Earth deserves our trust?")
  • Thomas Hardy Epitaph ("I never cared for Life: Life cared for me")
  • Edna Millay Epitaph ("Heap not on this mound")
  • Elinor Wylie Epitaph ("For this she starred her eyes with salt")
  • Walter Scott Epitaph ("AMID these aisles, where once his precepts showed")
  • Robert Southey Epitaph ("HERE, in the fruitful vales of Somerset")
  • Dorothy Parker Epitaph ("The first time I died, I walked my ways")
  • Emily Dickinson Epitaph ("Step lightly on this narrow spot!")
  • Donald Blanding Epitaph ("Do not carve on stone or wood")

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