Impromptu Lines Addressed To His Cousin, Mrs. Creed, In A Conversation After Dinner On The Origin Of Names
John Dryden 1631 (Aldwincle) – 1631 (London)
So much religion in your name doth dwell,
Your soul must needs with piety excel.
Thus names, like well-wrought pictures drawn of old,
Their owners' nature and their story told.
Your name but half expresses, for in you
Belief and practice do together go.
My prayers shall be, while this short life endures,
These may go hand in hand, with you and yours;
Till faith hereafter is in vision drowned,
And practice is with endless glory crowned.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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