Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- On the Bible
- ‘Rise noble Soule and come away’
- Epitaphium. Annæ Cholmeley sacrum
- Job. Cap. 19. v. 25.26.27. Memento mori
- In Obitum viri optimi J: C. Eirenarchæ
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
In Obitum viri optimi J: C. Eirenarchæ
from Poems from the Early Notebook
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- On the Bible
- ‘Rise noble Soule and come away’
- Epitaphium. Annæ Cholmeley sacrum
- Job. Cap. 19. v. 25.26.27. Memento mori
- In Obitum viri optimi J: C. Eirenarchæ
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
Heer lies pure and precious Dust,
Enclosed in this Urne;
which at the Resurrection must
To life againe returne.
For though his dust in silence lies,
with other Earth engrost;
It is a Treasure of such price,
A graine shall not bee lost.
This Grave must him againe restore,
when the last Trump shall sound;
And hee alive as here to-fore
with endlesse Joyes bee crownd.
Here lie his bones, his Soule above,
Doth Heav'nly blisse enjoy;
His Memory enbalm'd with Love,
With us on Earth doth stay.
Mistake not Reader; I don't meane,
As if twere here alone,
That his dear Memory doth remaine,
Grav'd on this obscure Stone:
Tis not this Stone which after Death,
Doth make his Name to live;
It was his Life which so much breath,
To this dumbe Stone did give.
T. T.
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- The Works of Thomas Traherne VIPoems from the 'Dobell Folio', Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from the 'Early Notebook', pp. 249 - 250Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014