Meer Taqi Meer

Here you will find the Poem On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia of poet Meer Taqi Meer

On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia

Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and
friends--
Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had he
Whom here low violets veil from eyes.
But all these gifts transcended be:
His happier fortune in this mound you see.