Hard is the doubt and difficult to deem
- DMI number:
- 14814
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Hard is the doubt and difficult to deem
- Last Line:
- No less than perfect gold surmounts the meanest brass
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Spenserian stanzas
- Themes:
- Friendship and Love
- Author:
- Edmund Spenser
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Faerie Queene, Book 4 Canto 9 stanza 1-2.
- First Line:
- Hard is the doubt and difficult to deem
- Last Line:
- Far as the ripened gold surmounts the cankery brass
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.284
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Spenser's Fairy Queen'
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
Poem Aliases
Spenser. Faerie Queene. Book 4 Canto 9.
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