Fame
Edward
Knight
Knight, Edward
Metadata research and editing
DVPP Project Team
Fralick
Kaitlyn
University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poem signed The Late Edward Knight, Esq.
(JH)
Forget-Me-Not
1830
180
What
is Fame ?
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Fame
.
By the Late Edward Knight, Esq.
What
is Fame ?
It is the shooting of a star,
That gleams along the trackless air,
And vanishes, almost ere seen, to nought.
And such is Fame !
It shines and flutters for a span,
And is forgot.