Can the deep statesman skilled in great design
- DMI number:
- 33128
- First Line:
- Can the deep statesman skilled in great design
- Last Line:
- The wish that sighs for sublunary things
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Admonition, Quatrain abab, and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Death, Hopelessness / vanity of life, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Cunningham
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract (with variants) from 'An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins'. Chalmers (1810) XIV: 443-445.
- First Line:
- In the full prospect yonder hill commands
- Last Line:
- The wish that sighs for sublunary things
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems. On religious, moral, and entertaining subjects: collected from the best English authors. [N4203] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.131-133
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas on Death
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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