I write not elegies nor tune my verse
- DMI number:
- 6797
- First Line:
- I write not elegies nor tune my verse
- Last Line:
- Thus their own funeral ashes to survive
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) VI: 7-8.
- Title:
- A collection of the best english poetry by several hands [vol II] [T71]
- Page No(s):
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy dedicated to the Memory of his much Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight and Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Hawkins
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins
- Title:
- Bosworth-field: a poem...with several verses in praise of the author, and elegies on his death by the greatest wits then living [T29559]
- Page No(s):
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy dedicated to the Memory of his much Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight and Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Hawkins
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins
- Title:
- The rhapsody. Being a display of the wit and humour of past times [T62617]
- Page No(s):
- pp.8-10
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy dedicated to the Memory of his much honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight and Baronet.
- Attribution:
- Thomas Hawkins.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins
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