Lines On The Tomb Of A Favorite Dog



HERE rests the image of a friend,-
    Thine, cherish'd BIBI , thine!
Oft to this spot our steps we'll bend,
    And call it Friendship's shrine.

Through length'ning years' successive flight
    Thy fondness still had power
To shed its narrow line of light
    On life's domestic hour;

And while for pleasures sought amiss
    Abroad we vainly roam,
How far more dear the slightest bliss
    That adds one charm to home!

Let those who coldly scorn the tear
    That soothes the grief we prove,
Say, if fidelity be dear,
    If love has claims to love;

Say, on what hallow'd spot there lives
    A heart unknown to range,
That to one chosen object gives
    A love no power can change?

Tell, in what tender breast to find
    Affection half so true?-
Ah, BIBI, who of human kind
    Has learnt to love like you!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX HIHI JKJK
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 795
Words 143
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Helen Maria Williams

 · 1761 · London

Helen Maria Williams was a British novelist poet and translator of French-language works A religious dissenter she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her life in France A controversial figure in her own time the young Williams was favorably portrayed in a 1787 poem by William Wordsworth but she was portrayed by other writers as irresponsibly politically radical and even as sexually wanton more…

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