On Robert Emmet's Grave by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Full Text of the Poem

On Robert Emmet's Grave

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Romantic · Short · 9 linesmortality

... No trump tells thy virtues--the grave where they rest With thy dust shall remain unpolluted by fame, Till thy foes, by the world and by fortune caressed, Shall pass like a mist from the light of thy name. When the storm-cloud that lowers o'er the day-beam is gone, Unchanged, unextinguished its life-spring will shine; When Erin has ceased with their memory to groan, She will smile through the tears of revival on thine.

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