IMPRIMIS -- My departed Shade I trust
To Heav'n -- My Body to the silent Dust;
My Name to publick Censure I submit,
To be dispos'd of as the World thinks fit;
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I first found this poem in a treasury of British poetry, and I had no idea who Mary Leapor was but I immediately liked her. I love her wit and the way she seems unafraid of death.
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I first found this poem in a treasury of British poetry, and I had no idea who Mary Leapor was but I immediately liked her. I love her wit and the way she seems unafraid of death.