Ordained to tread the thorny ground
- DMI number:
- 33553
- First Line:
- Ordained to tread the thorny ground
- Last Line:
- And poor men bless me when I die
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Fragment, Couplet, and Prayer
- Themes:
- The happy man / contentment, The law, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Samuel Whyte
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- The authorship of the verse in The Shamrock, the collection edited by Whyte, is uncertain. Some of the verse is by Whyte, and some by unknown others.
- Title:
- A collection of poems, the productions of the kingdom of Ireland. [N5695] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.202-203
- Poem Title:
- The Lawyer's Prayer. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems. The productions of the kingdom of Ireland [T103074] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.202-203
- Poem Title:
- The Lawyer's Prayer. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Modern poems: selected chiefly from miscellanies published lately. [T54021] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- XLI. The Lawyer's Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse [vol 1] [T118867] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.181-182
- Poem Title:
- The Lawyer's Prayer. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The shamrock: or, Hibernian cresses. A collection of poems, songs, epigrams, &c. [N22315] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- The Lawyer's Prayer. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The shamrock: or, Hibernian cresses. A collection of poems, songs, epigrams, &c. [T90484] [2nd ed] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- The Lawyer's Prayer. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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