Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best

DMI number:

43359

First Line:

Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best

Last Line:

And runs the rest of my remaining dust

Poem Genre / Form:

Quatrain abab and Elegy

Themes:

Death, Friendship, Grief / sadness / melancholy, and Poetry / literature / writing

Content/Publication

Title:

Reliquiae Wottonianae: or, a collection of lives, letters, poems with characters. Also additional letters to several persons [ESTC R2126]

Page No(s):

pp.lv-lvi

Poem Title:

Tears wept at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton

Attribution:

Henry Wotton

Attributed To:

Sir Henry Wotton