Poets are truly poor but only then
- DMI number:
- 17208
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Poets are truly poor but only then
- Last Line:
- And lifting it too high put out the flame
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Panegyric, and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Patronage and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Poem to the King's most Sacred Majesty ('Though poets mighty king such priests have been'). Works (1673): 262-271.
- 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):
- pp.30-31
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant to the King
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. To the king's most sacred majesty.
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