Let others raise enormous heaps of gold
- DMI number:
- 10019
- First Line:
- Let others raise enormous heaps of gold
- Last Line:
- Hunger and wealth I equally despise
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Complaint, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Love, Money / wealth, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Thomas Otway
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'The complete works of Thomas Otway', ed. Montague Summers (1926) Vol.3. Query: Source?
- Translated from:
- Tibullus
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- The works of Petronius Arbiter translated by several hands [T17788]
- Page No(s):
- pp.318-325
- Poem Title:
- The First Elegy of Tibullus. That he Contemns Riches and Glory, Love only, and Delia's Charms being worthy his Ambition.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- Title:
- The works of Petronius Arbiter translated by several hands [T17789]
- Page No(s):
- pp.318-325
- Poem Title:
- The First Elegy of Tibullus. That he Contemns Riches and Glory, Love only, and Delia's Charms being worthy his Ambition.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
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