Whose tongue dropped honey full of days was he
- DMI number:
- 37842
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Whose tongue dropped honey full of days was he
- Last Line:
- Over their sons sons a peaceful sceptre swayed
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Age and Virtue / vice
- Translated from:
- Homer
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Tickell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The First Book of the Iliad. Chalmers (1810) XI: 116-122.
- First Line:
- Achilles fatal wrath whence discord rose
- Last Line:
- Was Juno lodged in her alcove of gold
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough, Miss Dolman, Mr. Whistler, Mr. R. Dodsley, William Shenstone, Esq and others [vol 1] [T101901] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope's Homer.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Homer. Iliad. Book 1.
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