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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. To John Hoddesdon, on his Divine Epigrams
  2. A Prologue
  3. Hymn For St. John's Eve, 29th June
  4. The Tears of Amynta for the Death of Damon
  5. To the Lady Castlemaine, upon Her incouraging his first Play


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