Twas often said in days of old
- DMI number:
- 38696
- First Line:
- Twas often said in days of old
- Last Line:
- The wicked wanton sparrow died
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Animals
- Author:
- Nathaniel Cotton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Cotton (1791) I: 1-8.
- First Line:
- My dears tis said in days of old
- Last Line:
- The wicked wanton sparrow died
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select poems and ballads, from miscellanies printed since the publication of Dodsley's collection. [T175692] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-119
- Poem Title:
- The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow. A Fable. By Nathaniel Cotton, M. D. of St. Albans. Addressed to his Daughters Phoebe and Kitty Cotton, at Stoney-Stratford Boarding-school, in Buckinghamshire, 1754.
- Attribution:
- By Nathaniel Cotton, M. D. of St. Albans.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Cotton
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