There must be some proportion still to pity
- DMI number:
- 13981
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- There must be some proportion still to pity
- Last Line:
- Press flies to death
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- John Fountain
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Fountain (1661): 46 (extract from 'The Revvards of Vertue').
- 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.137
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- John Fountain's Rewards of Virtue
- Attributed To:
- John Fountain
Poem Aliases
Fountain. Rewards of Virtue.
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