With moral tale let ancient wisdom move
- DMI number:
- 32322
- First Line:
- With moral tale let ancient wisdom move
- Last Line:
- She gave the horse and gives the olive too
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Fable
- Themes:
- Mythology[Neptune Minerva Athena Poseidon], Patriotism / glory of the British nation, and War
- Author:
- Thomas Parnell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Rawson and Lock (1989): 109-110.
- Title:
- A Collection of Poems, From the Best Authors: Adapted to every age, but peculiarly designed to form the Taste of Youth. [T78176] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- I. The Horse and the Olive.
- Attribution:
- By Parnel [Contents page]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- Title:
- Modern poems: selected chiefly from miscellanies published lately. [T54021] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.111-113
- Poem Title:
- XXXI. The Horse and the Olive. By the Late Archdeacon Parnell, Not Yet Printed in his Works.
- Attribution:
- By the Late Archdeacon Parnell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
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