Let others write for glory or reward
- DMI number:
- 13606
- First Line:
- Let others write for glory or reward
- Last Line:
- Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Richard Corbett
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from An Elegy on the late William Howard, Baron of Effingham ('I did not know thee lord nor do I strive'). Chalmers (1810) V: 567-568.
- First Line:
- I did not know thee lord nor do I strive
- Last Line:
- Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- 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.57
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Richard Corbet, Bishop of Norwich
- Attributed To:
- Richard Corbett
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