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Diogenes surly and proud who snarled at the Macedon youth

DMI number:
11835
First Line:
Diogenes surly and proud who snarled at the Macedon youth
Last Line:
Without it we never should have had philosophers poets or kings
Poem Genre / Form:
Drinking song, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Quatrain aabb
Themes:
Food and drink[Wine] and History[Great philosophers]
Related People
Author:
Edward Ward
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
LION. Seems to be an extract from a longer work titled 'The Tipling Philosophers'.
Related Poems
First Line:
Diogenes surly and proud
Last Line:
Philosophers poets or kings
Relationship:
Variant Of
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
A Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, Songs and Epigrams. By several Hands (vol. 2) [T106190] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp. 90-92
Poem Title:
The Tipling Philosophers. A Song.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed