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The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum Poetry

On Visiting the Ruins of Bradgate-House In Leicestershire, The Birth-Place of Lady Jane Grey
And the Scene of Ascham's Interivew With Her
When He Found Her Reading The Phaedon of Plato

Source: "Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose, English and Latin" By Anthony Champion, William Henry Lyttelton Lyttelton
Year: 1801
Found here.

SONNET I.

Here spring, ye roses, laurels, ivy, here,
Each meed of learning's or of beauty's brow;
Be pious fortitude's fair garland near,
With cypress mix'd the palm's triumphant bough:
Here, the bright boast of Grey's aspiring line,
Young Jane in early bloom of genius sate,
Intently pond'ring Plato's page divine,
Calm, and unconscious of impending fate.

Sweet sophist! whom too soon stern foes ordain,
To prove that lore sublime not learnt in vain
(Severely prove, while first thy Guilford bled),
E'en wisdom wept o'er thy untimely bier;
Nor have the muses nor the graces e'er,
Before or since, such tears of anguish shed.

SONNET II.

YE Lars, yet ling'ring round your wasted seat,
Tell me where stood the room to Pallas dear,
Whose hallow'd ruins, now her bird's retreat,
All the mild pow'rs of doctrine still revere:
That room, which Plato's genius erst was known
To haunt, more pleas'd than in his olive shade,
While Jane, ill destin'd to a fatal throne,
Meek Wisdom's child, his discipline obey'd.
0 speak...for vows to that once attic scene
1 bring...there fix one wreath of deathless green...
There too some consecrated tears I shed...
Still are ye mute?...alas! in vain I call...
They fled this mournful place, or perish'd all,
Pining with grief, when their lov'd mistress bled.

EPIGRAM I.

WHEN Jane, unmov'd amid the weeping crowd,
Knelt to the block yet warm with Guilford's blood,
'The bitterness of death is past,' she cry'd,
' 'Twas then I suffer'd when my husband dy'd.'
II.

SOON as to Socrates the news was known
That Jane's calm fortitude surpass'd his own,
'O be her fame superior!' pleas'd he cry'd;
'To such disciples I can yield with pride:
But let her not, too emulous, deny
Whose early lessons b taught her how to die.'
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