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Mary Monk

  • “Thou who dost all my worldly thoughts employ, / Thou pleasing source of all my earthly joy, / Thou tenderest husband and thou dearest friend, / To thee this first, this last adieu I send!”

    • Mary Monk,
    • "Verses, Written on Her Death-Bed at Bath, to Her Husband in London," in Alexander Dyce, ed., Specimens of British Poetesses ()

Mary Monk, English poet

(1677 - 1715)

Full name, The Honorable Mary Molesworth Monk.