Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). Epitaph for Queen Elizabeth. J. C. Squire, ed. 1921. A Book of Women's Verse

J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921.

Epitaph for Queen Elizabeth

By Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672)


HERE sleeps the Queen; this is the royal bed,
O’ th’ damask rose, sprung from the white and red,
Whose sweet perfume fills the all-filling air,
This Rose is wither’d, once so lovely fair;
On neither tree did grow such rose before,	5
The greater was our gain, our loss the more.