Whither is ancient virtue gone
- DMI number:
- 7295
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Whither is ancient virtue gone
- Last Line:
- Then at length as calmly die as infants fall asleep
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Septet / seven-line stanza and Song
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Ambition, and Corruption
- Author:
- John Sheffield
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of Chorus I ('Whither is Roman honour gone'). Chalmers (1810) X: 100-101.
- First Line:
- Whither is Roman justice gone
- Last Line:
- Then as calmly die as infants fall asleep
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5777]
- Page No(s):
- pp.57-59
- Poem Title:
- Four Songs Written in 1683, In order to be Sung as Chorus's between the Acts of a Play of Shakespear that was altered. First Song after the End of the first Act. Chorus of Free Citizens of Rome.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5778]
- Page No(s):
- pp.57-59
- Poem Title:
- First Song after the End of the first Act. Chorus of Free Citizens of Rome.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5779] [vol I]
- Page No(s):
- pp.182-184
- Poem Title:
- First Song after the end of the first Act. Chorus of free Citizens of Rome.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5780] [vol I]
- Page No(s):
- pp.189-191
- Poem Title:
- First Song after the end of the first Act. Chorus of free Citizens of Rome.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Fifth Edition [Vol. 1] [T5782]
- Page No(s):
- pp.212-214
- Poem Title:
- First Song after the end of the first Act. Chorus of Free Citizens of Rome.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Fifth Edition. [Vol. I] [ECCO] [T5781]
- Page No(s):
- pp.212-214
- Poem Title:
- First Song after the end of the first Act. Chorus of Free Citizens of Rome.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Sixth Edition [vol. 1] [N1461] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.211-213
- Poem Title:
- First Song after the end of the first Act. Chorus of Free Citizens of Rome.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
Poem Aliases
Buckingham. Julius Caesar.
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