The rod was honest English wood
- DMI number:
- 18175
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The rod was honest English wood
- Last Line:
- It grew an all-devouring asp
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Objects[rod]
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod, Swift Poems Project, 132-
- First Line:
- The rod was but a harmless wand
- Last Line:
- His next will be a rod in piss
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes, published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana... [ESTC T53830]
- Page No(s):
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- 'Motto taken from the Doctor's Miscellanies' i.e. Swift's p.121
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
Poem Aliases
Swift. The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod.
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