Give me leave to rail at you
- DMI number:
- 25372
- First Line:
- Give me leave to rail at you
- Last Line:
- And quell the rebel in your arms
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Complaint, Octet ababccdd, and Song
- Themes:
- Love
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Song' ('Give me leave to rail at you') and 'Answer' ('Nothing adds to your fond fire'), with variants. Love: 'probably by Rochester'. Vieth (1968): 10-11.
- First Line:
- Give me leave to rail at you
- Last Line:
- And makes the slaves grow pleased again
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Give me leave to rail at you
- Last Line:
- And makes the slave grow pleased again
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Kindness has resistless charms
- Last Line:
- And clips the wings of flying love
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Nothing adds to your fond fire
- Last Line:
- And sell the rebel in your arms
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellanea nova et curiosa: the new and curious miscellany; to which is added a collection of poems [T73638]
- Page No(s):
- pp.308-309
- Poem Title:
- To Thirsis.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [i.e. Rochester]
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
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