How blessed is he who for his country dies
- DMI number:
- 32346
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- How blessed is he who for his country dies
- Last Line:
- Slow vengeance like a bloodhound at his heels
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Address and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fear, The happy man / contentment, and War
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, 210-
- First Line:
- How blessed is he who for his country dies
- Last Line:
- Sure vengeance like a bloodhound at his heels
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A Collection of Poems, From the Best Authors: Adapted to every age, but peculiarly designed to form the Taste of Youth. [T78176] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- II. To the Earl of Oxford, when in the Tower, before his trial, 1716. In imitation of Horace. III. 2.
- Attribution:
- by Swift. [Contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
Poem Aliases
Horace. Odes. Book 2 Ode 3.
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