Merit should be forever placed
- DMI number:
- 30176
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Merit should be forever placed
- Last Line:
- Alone distinguish man from brute
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Wit
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa, Swift Poems Project, 686-
- First Line:
- The shepherds and the nymphs were seen
- Last Line:
- Harnessed her doves and flew to heaven
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Swift. Cadenus and Vanessa.
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