And now (sweet babe) what can my trembling heart Suggest to right my doleful fate or thee? Tears are my muse, and sorrow all my art, So piercing groans must be thy elegy.
Katherine Philips
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- On the Death of my First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips, lines9–12; Full20-line public-domain poem read in Luminarium’s documented transcription of Paul Salzman, ed., Early Modern Women’s Writing (Oxford University Press,2000), pp270–271; also read Northwestern Pulter Project reproduction. Comple
- On the Death of my First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips, lines9–12
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