A weeping mourner, smote with anguish sore,
To see Misfortune rend in frantic mood
His robe, with regal woes embroider’d o’er.
Pale Terror leads the visionary band,
And sternly shakes his sceptre dropping blood.
“Monody written near Stratford-upon-Avon.” Miscellaneous Odes. 1777.
ANNA SEWARD, BEFORE 1782
(1747-1809)
“On Shakespeare’s Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon.”
Great Homer’s birth sev’n rival cities claim,