title: Lines on the death of Mrs. Catharine Breese (Catharine Livingston Breese)
author: Henry Livingston Jr.
date: 1808
source: Poughkeepsie Journal, 31 Aug 1808 (obituary of his daughter, d. 21 Aug 1808), unsigned; adapted from his MS elegy on her mother. URL: https://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/poetry/cathlivbreese.htm (fetched via https://web.archive.org/web/20250522014140/https://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/poetry/cathlivbreese.htm)
form: iambic pentameter
lines: 12
attribution: probable
notes: Serious elegy on his eldest daughter, reworking the 1783 elegy on his wife. Site places it in the tier "attributed by descendants' statements or by ownership". Site heading/headnote: On the 21st Inst. at Utica, Mrs. Catherine Breese, | the wife of Arthur Breese, Esq. | aged 33 years and 3 days.

Her little bark on life's wide ocean tossed,
In the unequal struggle soon was lost:
Severe its conflict! Much alas it bore!
Then sunk beneath the storm and rose no more.
But when th' Archangels clarion shall sound,
And thunder lIFEl thro all the vast profound,
Her renovated vessel will be seen
Transcendent floating on the stream;
The joyful ensigns waving in the air,
The tides propitious and the zephyrs fair,
Till safe within the destin'd port of bliss
The anchor drop in everlasting peace.