Ne gay attire ne marble hall
- DMI number:
- 22514
- First Line:
- Ne gay attire ne marble hall
- Last Line:
- My house shall prove a hermitage
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Architecture / buildings[Mereworth, seat of Earl of Westmoreland] and Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Gilbert West
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) XIII: 187.
- First Line:
- Beneath these moss grown roots this rustic cell
- Last Line:
- What drawing room can boast so fair a train
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Ne gay attire ne marble hall
- Last Line:
- Mine house shall prove an hermitage
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Sweet bird that singst on yonder spray
- Last Line:
- In solitude itself is blessed
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on Several Occasions, From Genuine Manuscripts [T42648]
- Page No(s):
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- Behind St. Agnes's Shrine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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