No marble pomp no monumental praise
- DMI number:
- 24029
- First Line:
- No marble pomp no monumental praise
- Last Line:
- Employ that well for that's within thy power
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Carpe diem, Death, and Time
- Author:
- Samuel Bowden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of 'An Epitaph'. Bowden (1754): 97.
- First Line:
- Here reader mark perhaps now in thy prime
- Last Line:
- Employ that well for that's within thy power
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A new select collection of epitaphs [vol I] [T136904] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.315
- Poem Title:
- The following Inscription is placed under a Dial erected over the Grave of Edward Bond, Esq. of Armagh in Ireland, who ordered 100l. to be given to the Poor, instead of a pompous Funeral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select Epitaphs [Vol. 2] [ESTC T137253]
- Page No(s):
- pp.157-158
- Poem Title:
- On Edward Bond, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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