Though Britain's genius hung her drooping head
- DMI number:
- 32435
- First Line:
- Though Britain's genius hung her drooping head
- Last Line:
- He saved his leader's life but lost his own
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Patriotism / glory of the British nation
- Author:
- George Lyttelton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- In LION: from Miscellanies (1766) (ed. Catherine Jemmat).(Query: Not in Chalmers (1810) XIV but attrib. to Lyttleton in other contemporary collections)
- First Line:
- Though Britain's genius hung her drooping head
- Last Line:
- When senates thus reward the glorious deed
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Though Britain's genius hung his drooping head
- Last Line:
- When senates thus reward the glorious deed
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- IX. On Captain Grenville:
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Lord Lyttleton]
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- On Captain Cornwall, slain off Toulon, 1743:
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Lord Lyttleton]
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- On Captain Cornwall, slain off Toulon, 1743:
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Lord Lyttleton]
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
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