<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428965" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Orinda upon Little Hector Philips</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">. <br> Twice forty months of Wedlock did I stay,<br> Then had my vows crown'd with a Lovely boy,<br> And yet in forty days he dropt away,<br> O swift Visissitude of humane joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.<br> I did but see him and he dis-appear'd,<br> I did but pluck the Rose-bud and it fell,<br> A sorrow unforeseen and scarcely fear'd,<br> For ill can mortals their afflictions spell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.<br> And now (sweet Babe) what can my trembling heart<br> Suggest to right my doleful fate or thee,<br> Tears are my Muse and sorrow all my Art,<br> So piercing groans must be thy Elogy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thus whilst no eye is witness of my mone,<br> I grieve thy loss ( Ah boy too dear to live)<br> And let the unconcerned World alone,<br> Who neither will, nor can refreshment give.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> An Off'ring too for thy sad Tomb I have,<br> Too just a tribute to thy early Herse,<br> Receive these gasping numbers to thy grave,<br> The last of thy unhappy Mothers Verse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katherine+Philips">Katherine Philips</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428965" data-title="Orinda upon Little Hector Philips de Katherine Philips" data-description=". Twice forty months of Wedlock did I stay, Then had my vows crown'd with a Lovely boy, And yet in forty days he dropt away, O swift Visissitude of humane joy. . I did but see him and he dis-appear'd, I did but pluck the Rose-bud and it fe..."></div> </div> </div>

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