How can you rest where power is still alarmed
- DMI number:
- 16928
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- How can you rest where power is still alarmed
- Last Line:
- Yet call it conscience when tis obstinate
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Poem to the King's most Sacred Majesty ('Though poets mighty king such priests have been'). Works (1673): 262-271.
- 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.311
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant to the King
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. To the king's most sacred majesty.
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