Hang all the streets with sable sad and call
- DMI number:
- 43179
- First Line:
- Hang all the streets with sable sad and call
- Last Line:
- Though undeserving yet attend his hearse
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Panegyric, and Elegy
- Themes:
- Death, Grief / sadness / melancholy, Loyalty, Politics, and The monarchy (heads of state)[Charles II; James II.]
- Author:
- Patrick Ker
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Poem published anonymously as a broadside with the following epitaph (poem ID 43180) in 1685 (ESTC R204280). S. M. Dunnigan accepts the attribution to Ker in ODNB.
- Title:
- A collection of 86 loyal poems, all of them written upon the two late plots [ESTC R19822]
- Page No(s):
- pp.347-349
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy on the Deplorable, and never enough to be Lamented Death of the Illustrious, and Serene Charles the Second. King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, &c. Who departed this Life February the 6th. 1685.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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