- Full Text
- Absent or dead still let a friend be dear
A sigh the absent claim, the dead a tear
- Listed on Page Number
- 197
- Sampler Worked By
- Sarah Wyatt Miller
- Date of Sampler
- 1802
- Place Sampler Made
- Salem, New Jersey
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 256
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Parnell, Thomas. London, England, 1717
- Notes
- Sampler worked by: S.W. Miller (Sarah Wyatt)
Parnell was an Irish Poet who lived in London at the time this was written.
This was an Epistle from a poetic letter addressed to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.
The Epistle was published in 1721 by Alexander Pope, a well known poet himself and friend of Parnell’s.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Poetical_Works_of_Thomas_Parnell/Poem_1