The bad man's death is horror but the just
- DMI number:
- 14429
- First Line:
- The bad man's death is horror but the just
- Last Line:
- Keeps something of his glory in his dust
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- William Habington
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Elegie 8 ('Boast not the reverend vatican nor all'). Chalmers (1810) VI: 472.
- 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.204
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Habbington's Castara
- Attributed To:
- William Habington
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