title: Epitaph for Catharine Breese Livingston
author: Henry Livingston Jr.
date: 1814
source: tombstone of his daughter Catharine Breese Livingston (d. 13 Sep 1814, aged 5), Poughkeepsie; site lists it with the "guaranteed" poems ("or chisel, for the tombstone"). URL: https://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/poetry/cathbreeseliv.htm (fetched via https://web.archive.org/web/20250522014152/https://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/poetry/cathbreeseliv.htm)
form: iambic tetrameter (quatrain)
lines: 4
attribution: certain
notes: Serious four-line epitaph; reused in 1829 by his son Charles for a granddaughter.

We fondly nurs'd an op'ning rose,
Watch'd o'er each beauty every day;
But ah! a withering blast arose
And swept our lovely flow'r away.