Wednesday, May 9, 2001

Epitaph On The Tombstone Of A Child Comments

Rating: 3.1

This Little, Silent, Gloomy Monument,
Contains all that was sweet and innocent ;
The softest pratler that e'er found a Tongue,
His Voice was Musick and his Words a Song ;
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Aphra Behn
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Khairul Ahsan 21 August 2023

Excellent! Love it.

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Douglas Scotney 07 July 2015

it's the 'Has' after 'Charms' that does it for me. And the thought of those smiles in heaven

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Edward Kofi Louis 07 July 2015

Monument! With the memories of the past. Nice work.

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Kim Barney 07 July 2015

Sweet, sonorous sixteen-hundreds sonnet. Somewhat sappy yet still pleasing some four hundred years later.

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