My very good lord tis a very hard task
- DMI number:
- 24105
- First Line:
- My very good lord tis a very hard task
- Last Line:
- For a man to wait here who has nothing to ask
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Patronage
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, 368A
- First Line:
- My very good dean there's few who come here
- Last Line:
- But have something to ask or something to fear
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- Dean Swift being sent for by the Lord Carteret, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and waiting alone for some Time in the Council Chamber, wrote with a Diamond on the Window.
- Attribution:
- Dean Swift...wrote...
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- CCXLVI. Dean Swift being sent for by the Lord Carteret, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and being made to wait in the Council-Chamber alone, wrote with a Diamond on the Window,
- Attribution:
- Dean Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- CCXLVI. Dean Swift being sent for by the Lord Carteret, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and being made to wait in the Council-Chamber alone, wrote with a Diamond on the Window.
- Attribution:
- Dean Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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