I cannot eat but little meat
- DMI number:
- 33627
- First Line:
- I cannot eat but little meat
- Last Line:
- Whether they be young or old
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drinking song, Internal rhyme, Ballad, and Quatrain abcb
- Themes:
- Age, Food and drink[Ale], and Marriage
- Author:
- William Maginn
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Attributed in LION, from Miscellaneous Writings (1855-1857). However, the poem's appearance in this miscellany predates Maginn's birth.
- Author:
- William Stevenson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- In Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English Verse: 12501900 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1919), n. 49.
- Title:
- The flower-piece, a collection of modern poems [T213573]
- Page No(s):
- pp.142-144
- Poem Title:
- Song, Written About Two Hundred And Fifty Hears Ago.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse [vol 2] [T118867] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.142-144
- Poem Title:
- Song, Written About Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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