My sledge and hammer lie reclined

DMI number:

18850

First Line:

My sledge and hammer lie reclined

Last Line:

My nails are drove my work is done

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet, Epitaph, and Sestet aabbcc

Themes:

Death and Trades / labour[Blacksmith]

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Author:

Alexander Pennecuik

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

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Content/Publication

Title:

A new miscellany in prose and verse by Swift, Holles St John and other eminent hands [T67058]

Page No(s):

p.61

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On the Grave Stone of a Blacksmith, buried in Chester Church Yard.

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Title:

Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]

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