Wild was my name and like a tempest wild
- DMI number:
- 29408
- First Line:
- Wild was my name and like a tempest wild
- Last Line:
- When dead I am let die my art and name
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Crime and Death
- Title:
- Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones: Or a curious collection of above 900 of the most remarkable epitaphs [vol I] [T55764] [gb]
- Page No(s):
- pp.277-278
- Poem Title:
- On Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker, sent by an unknown Hand,
- Attribution:
- said to be wrote by himself [i.e. Wild] in Newgate.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Wild
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