My reward is power | An outward trifle bought with inward peace
- DMI number:
- 17253
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- My reward is power | An outward trifle bought with inward peace
- Last Line:
- When feverish love the people's fit shall cease
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence[Instability] and Politics[Power]
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Gondibert (Book 2 Canto 2). Chalmers (1810) VI: 375-431.
- Title:
- [vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ibid [i.e. Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Gondibert.
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