A common pity does not love express
- DMI number:
- 13982
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- A common pity does not love express
- Last Line:
- Pity is love when grown into excess
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Love
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Vestal Virgin' Act 4 Scene 1. Howard (1692).
- 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.137
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
Poem Aliases
The Vestal Virgin.
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