Well sounding verses are the charms we use
- DMI number:
- 9551
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Well sounding verses are the charms we use
- Last Line:
- But they move more in lofty numbers told
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Upon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace ('Rome was not better by her Horace taught'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 69.
- First Line:
- Rome was not better by her Horace taught
- Last Line:
- And wax that does the absent sun supply
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Page No(s):
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.359
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
Poem Aliases
Waller. On Roscommon's Horace's art of poetry.
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