Absent or dead still let a friend be dear
- DMI number:
- 34575
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Absent or dead still let a friend be dear
- Last Line:
- A sigh the absent claims the dead a tear
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work, Epitaph, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Epistle to Robert Earl of Mortimer. Twickenham edition VI: 238-40.
- First Line:
- Such were the notes thy once-loved poet sung
- Last Line:
- Nor fears to tell that Mortimer is he
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A new select collection of epitaphs [vol I] [T136904] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.246
- Poem Title:
- On Anne Dupree, Aet. 80.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl of Mortimer.
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