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Though infant years no pompous honours claim

DMI number:
33056
First Line:
Though infant years no pompous honours claim
Last Line:
The spotless innocence that slumbers here
Poem Genre / Form:
Epitaph
Themes:
Death, Hopelessness / vanity of life, and Parents and children
Related People
Author:
Elizabeth Carter
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
Pennington (1807): 441: 'said...to have been written by Mrs. Carter'.
Content/Publication
Title:
Miscellaneous poems. On religious, moral, and entertaining subjects: collected from the best English authors. [N4203] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.68
Poem Title:
Epitaph on an Infant.
Attribution:
By a Lady.
Attributed To:
Not attributed