Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

To my ingenious Friend, Mr. Mitchell, On his Mournful Poems Occasion'd by his Brother's Death [from Poems On several Grave and Important Subjects]

London

T. Cox

1719

"In you he liv'd, with yours his Soul was mixt, / As meeting Streams that flow promiscuous on."

In your young Brother lately rais'd to Heav'n,
You had a Friend by double Bonds made yours:
In you he liv'd, with yours his Soul was mixt,
As meeting Streams that flow promiscuous on.
The Road of Life you walked Hand in Hand;
One your Desires and your Aversions were:
Nought pleas'd the One, but what the other pleas'd.
Nor could Affliction seize you and not him:
Your Foes were his, and his were yours declar'd;
As if for one another you were born.
Now he by Death, relentless Death is seiz'd,
And from your Heart, where he was rooted well,
Torn with tormenting Violence away;
None but your self can the true Idea form
Of these smart Twinges which your Soul endures:
You only can your present Pangs declare,
And open all the dreadful Wound to view.
[Poem signed "R. Boyd"]

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Joseph Mitchell, Lugubres Cantus. Poems on Several Grave and Important Subjects, Chiefly Occasion'd by the Death of the Late Ingenious Youth John Mitchell. In Two Parts. With a General Preface by Appointment of an Athenian Societty in Edinburgh. (London: printed for T. Cox, 1719). <Link to ECCO>

01/08/2012