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An inscription in stone.
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Poetry examples for “epigram”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →king once bestowed a bounty of one hundred j^ounds
on him, which is acknowledged in an epigram writ-
ten on the occasion.
Read full poem →Bid him go hang, for he is but a gull,
And knows not what an epigram doth[459] mean,
Which taxeth,[460] under a particular name,
Read full poem →[511] In this epigram, as Dyce showed, Davies is glancing at a sonnet of
Drayton's "To the Celestiall Numbers" in _Idea_. Jonson told Drummond
Read full poem →[462] "To this epigram there is an evident allusion in the following one
Read full poem →_he_ not in possession of his faculties, mental and corporeal? Who
writes a keener epigram? Who reasons more wittily? Who—but stay! I
have his agreement in my pocket-book.”
Read full poem →[Antiquary. _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _P_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W:_
Hammon. _HN:_ _no title_, _Bur_, _Cy_, _O'F:_ Epigram. _S96_]
Read full poem →Who let me taste that more than cordial dram,
The sharp, the rapier-pointed epigram?
Shew'd me that epic was of all the king,
Read full poem →On the Death of the Right Hon.***
An Epigram. Addressed to the Gentlemen reflected on in ‘The Rosciad’, a Poem, by the Author
To G. C. and R. L.