What numerous lights this wretch's corpse attend
- DMI number:
- 17370
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What numerous lights this wretch's corpse attend
- Last Line:
- Who in his lifetime saved a candle's end
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death, Light, and Money / wealth
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Moral Essays, Epistle III To Bathurst. Twickenham edition III ii.
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- CDXXXIV.
- Poem Title:
- On the Funeral of Vulture Hopkins.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CDXXXIV.
- Poem Title:
- On the Funeral of Vulture Hopkins.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- On the Funeral of Vulture Hopkins.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Moral Essays. Epistle 3. To Bathurst.
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