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Poem by John Dryden


Epitaph on a Nephew in Catworth Church, Huntingdonshire


STAY, Stranger, stay, and drop one Tear;
She allways weeps that layd him here;
And will do till her Race is run:
His Father’s fifth, her only Son.



John Dryden


John Dryden's other poems:
  1. A Prologue
  2. Hymn For St. John's Eve, 29th June
  3. You Charm'd Me Not With That Fair Face
  4. To John Hoddesdon, on his Divine Epigrams
  5. The Tears of Amynta for the Death of Damon


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