A modest wish
Details
Type: Index
Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/1615 (Lt 45 )
Title: A modest wish
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/99584
Description
Notes: (As fields untilled)
First lines: As fields untill'd grow rank for want of use
And wild unprofitable herbs produce
Last lines: No idle hours in vanity to spend
And Agar's wish should all my wishes end
Length: 24
Verse form: Couplets
Contents: Religious poem, describing the uncontrolled and unprofitable nature of
undirected thoughts, praying for guidance that time might not be spent idly