Though Britain's genius hung his drooping head

DMI number:

30872

First Line:

Though Britain's genius hung his drooping head

Last Line:

When senates thus reward the glorious deed

Poem Genre / Form:

Elegy and Couplet

Themes:

Death and Patriotism / glory of the British nation

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Author:

George Lyttelton

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

In LION: from Miscellanies (1766) (ed. Catherine Jemmat). (Query: Not in Chalmers (1810) XIV but attrib. to Lyttleton in other contemporary collections)

Author:

John Duncombe

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Forster (1980): 49.

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Content/Publication

Title:

The Poetical Calendar. Vol. X. For October. [T146608]

Page No(s):

p.77

Poem Title:

On Seeing Capt. Cornwall's Monument in Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J.D.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed