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Subject: PLAGIARISM
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DEFENSE AGAINST CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM, by ANNE KILLIGREW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The envious age, only to me alone
Last Line: To speak the truth, although believed too late.
Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne
Subject(s): Plagiarism


EPIGRAM: TO OLD-END GATHERER, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long-gathering old end, I did fear thee wise
Last Line: Could save that line to dedicate to thee?
Variant Title(s): To Old-end Gatherer
Subject(s): Plagiarism


EPIGRAM: TO PROWL THE PLAGIARY, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear to tempt me, prowl, I will not show
Last Line: I must a libel make, and cozen both.
Subject(s): Plagiarism


EVENING IN MAY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nought tragic here, tho' night
Last Line: Has all in one short plagiarised rhyme.
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Love; May (month); Plagiarism


ON BORROWING PLUMES, by GEORGE MEASON WHICHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is too true: my sonnets' every phrase
Last Line: From long, loud-thundering billows of miltonic seas.
Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets


PLAGIARIZING POEMS, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A starving hount gnaws a dry bone
Last Line: Formerly writing was something chaste; %even then it did not make a good man worthy
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Plagiarism; Writing And Writers


THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever justice with her iron hand
Last Line: Debauch'd, like danäe, with a golden show'r?
Subject(s): Deception; Great Britain; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Justice; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Revenge


UPON THE SAYING THAT MY VERSES WERE MADE BY ANOTHER, by ANNE KILLIGREW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Next heaven my vows to thee (o sacred muse!)
Last Line: To speak the truth, although believ'd too late.
Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne
Subject(s): Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets


VERSES: THE FIFTH BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When oxford saw in her radclivian dome
Last Line: Help'd the rare thief to raise up a design.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets


VERSES: THE FOURTH BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A critic once to a miltonian made
Last Line: "poh! Hold thy tongue! He stole the devil,—did he?"
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Plagiarism


VERSES: THE MASTER'S SPEECH, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our worthy founder, gentlemen, this day
Last Line: Take what you like, sirs, and excuse the rest.
Subject(s): Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Speech; Oratory; Orators


VERSES: THE SECOND BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When milton's ghost into elysium came
Last Line: "I like him not;—he never stole from us."
Subject(s): Plagiarism


VERSES: THE SEVENTH BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miltonum vir (o facinus nefarium!
Last Line: Poetam exhinc unicum lauderum!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Plagiarism


VERSES: THE SIXTH BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lauder! Thy authors dutch and german
Last Line: Fast as the vulture can devour.
Subject(s): Plagiarism


VERSES: THE THIRD BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crime in a poet, sirs, to steal a thought?'
Last Line: Sluggishly saunt'ring forth, makes none of them his own.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Human Behavior; Plagiarism; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature