Alas my purse how lean and low
- DMI number:
- 23697
- First Line:
- Alas my purse how lean and low
- Last Line:
- And gently rhyming rats to death
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Mock heroic and Couplet
- Themes:
- Money / wealth
- Author:
- Mary Jones
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Jones (1750): 100-3.
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 1] [T42592] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.301-303
- Poem Title:
- Soliloquy On an Empty Purse.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Jones.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Jones
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 1] [T60050] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.249-251
- Poem Title:
- Soliloquy on an Empty Purse.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Jones.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Jones
- Title:
- Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great Britain and Ireland [N21034] [vol I] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.157-159
- Poem Title:
- Soliloquy On an Empty Purse.
- Attribution:
- Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Jones
- Title:
- Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland [T144911 vol. I]
- Page No(s):
- pp.301-303
- Poem Title:
- Soliloquy On an Empty Purse.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Jones.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Jones
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