Greatness is but the shadow of the beams
- DMI number:
- 14979
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Greatness is but the shadow of the beams
- Last Line:
- Work near enough to set itself on fire
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- Sir John Suckling
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Sad One Act 1 Scene 1. Beaurline (1971).
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Suckling's Sad One
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Suckling
Poem Aliases
Suckling. Sad one.
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