Man's like a barren and ingrateful soil
- DMI number:
- 14565
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Man's like a barren and ingrateful soil
- Last Line:
- That seldom pays the labour of manuring
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Education
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Blind Lady' Act 5 Scene 5. Howard (1696): 29-140.
- 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.233
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
Poem Aliases
The Blind Lady.
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