Epigram
Epigram
Original Text
Ebenezer Elliott, The Poetical Works (London: H.S. King, 1876): 167. PR4699 .E5 A14 1876 UTL at Downsview
1"Prepare to meet the King of Terrors," cried
2To prayerless Want, his plunderer ferret-eyed:
Notes
3] King of Terrors: "Colonel Thompson" (poet's note). Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1850
Publication Notes
More Verse and Prose by the Cornlaw Rhymer, Ed. John Watkins (1850) [the poet's son-in-law].
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2009
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