I have been told that virtue in courtiers hearts
- DMI number:
- 14122
- First Line:
- I have been told that virtue in courtiers hearts
- Last Line:
- Suffers an ostracism and departs
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- High society / the court and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Donne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To the Countess of Bedford (To have written then). Smith (1971): 227.
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Donne
- Attributed To:
- John Donne
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