Was rhetoric on the lips of sorrow hung
- DMI number:
- 25183
- First Line:
- Was rhetoric on the lips of sorrow hung
- Last Line:
- Kind heaven has called him to eternal youth
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death, Grief / sadness / melancholy, and Heaven
- Author:
- Christopher Smart
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Poetical Works, IV, 297.
- Title:
- A new select collection of epitaphs [vol I] [T136904] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- On a Young Clergyman at St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet.
- Attribution:
- C. Smart.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
- Title:
- A select collection of epitaphs carefully collected from the tombstones of the most eminent personages in England Scotland and Ireland [T131017] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- On a young Clergyman at St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet.
- Attribution:
- C. Smart.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems. On religious, moral, and entertaining subjects: collected from the best English authors. [N4203] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Epigraph on a young Clergyman.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. C. Smart, M. A.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
- Title:
- Select and Remarkable Epitaphs [Vol. 1] [T27439] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- On a young Clergyman at St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet.
- Attribution:
- C. Smart.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
- Title:
- Select Epitaphs [Vol. 2] [ESTC T137253]
- Page No(s):
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- On a young Clergyman, at St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Smart.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
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