Some boughs grow crooked from the straightest tree
- DMI number:
- 13897
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Some boughs grow crooked from the straightest tree
- Last Line:
- The fault is in their fact not in their name
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Parents and children
- Author:
- Michael Drayton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Barons' Wars (Book 5). Chalmers (1810) IV: 25-56.
- 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.117
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Drayton
- Attributed To:
- Michael Drayton
Poem Aliases
Drayton. Barons' Wars.
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