If you can leave for books the crowded court
- DMI number:
- 22125
- First Line:
- If you can leave for books the crowded court
- Last Line:
- Neglect the living poet for the dead
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Epistle
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing and Retirement
- Author:
- Christopher Pitt
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) XII: 399-400. Forster (1980): 62.
- First Line:
- Dear sir to all my trifles you attend
- Last Line:
- For he has twenty cures and I but one
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Health from the bard who loves the rural sport
- Last Line:
- Twould be one pleasure more could you appear
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Sir I've long waited in my turn to have
- Last Line:
- To the bleak mountains where you first were caught
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Spence with a friend you pass the hours away
- Last Line:
- A firm and even soul shall still be mine
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. X. For October. [T146608]
- Page No(s):
- pp.98-99
- Poem Title:
- The Invitation, an Epistle to a Friend at Court.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Christopher Pitt]
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- Title:
- The Student or the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany [vol I] [T147616] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.315-316
- Poem Title:
- The Invitation. An Epistle to a Friend at Court.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Pitt]
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
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