Poets had formerly not only bread

DMI number:

24747

First Line:

Poets had formerly not only bread

Last Line:

Honour dead bards and let the living starve

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram and Couplet

Themes:

Money / wealth, Patronage, and Poetry / literature / writing

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First Line:

Poets of old with every genius blessed

Last Line:

But then they are not worth the bread they eat

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Content/Publication

Title:

The Norfolk poetical miscellany [Vol 2] [ESTC T85536]

Page No(s):

p.223

Poem Title:

On the Monuments lately set up in Westminster-Abbey, to the Memory of famous Poets.

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Title:

The poetical miscellany, consisting of great variety of odes, epistles, pastorals, tales, fables, epigrams &c. [vol 2] [T85564] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.223

Poem Title:

On the Monuments lately set up in Westminster-Abbey, to the Memory of famous Poets.

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