Who live but for themselves are but for show
- DMI number:
- 16305
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Who live but for themselves are but for show
- Last Line:
- And stand like barren trees where good might grow
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Richard Brome
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Queen and Concubine' Act 3 Scene 2. Five New Plays (1659, ESTC R209758).
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.199
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Richard Brome's Queen and Concubine
- Attributed To:
- Richard Brome
Poem Aliases
Brome. The Queen and Concubine.
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