After a painful life in study spent
- DMI number:
- 4234
- First Line:
- After a painful life in study spent
- Last Line:
- Is what we have admired to imitate
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Panegyric and Couplet
- Themes:
- Education and Women / the female character
- Author:
- William Congreve
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- McKenzie II: 332-3.
- First Line:
- Ah what pains what racking thoughts he proves
- Last Line:
- Save me from absence love or let me die
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Cruel Amynta can you see
- Last Line:
- Who much security beguiles
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Fair Amoret is gone astray
- Last Line:
- She is the thing that she despises
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Grant me gentle love said I
- Last Line:
- For love love himself's no more
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- I looked and I sighed and I wished I could speak
- Last Line:
- A very good end of this wooing
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- I love and am beloved again
- Last Line:
- But make it more quickly expire
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- If what we feel of joy could be expressed
- Last Line:
- That lives by his but we survive by yours
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Pious Selinda goes to prayers
- Last Line:
- Or I of her a sinner
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- See see she wakes Sabina wakes
- Last Line:
- How many will her coldness kill
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When Lesbia first I saw so heavenly fair
- Last Line:
- And what her eyes enthralled her tongue unbound
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- This peaceful tomb does now contain
- Last Line:
- Then robbed us of the coming good
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Page No(s):
- pp.366-368
- Poem Title:
- Verses Sacred to the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin. Occasioned by reading her Book, Intitled, Reliquiae Gethinianae.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [i.e. Congreve]
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.156-157
- Poem Title:
- Verses Sacred to the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin. Occasioned by reading her Book, intitled, Reliquiae Gethinianae.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand. [i.e. Congreve]
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Page No(s):
- pp.158-159
- Poem Title:
- Verses Sacred to the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin. Occasioned by reading her Book, intitled, Reliquiae Gethinianae.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [i.e. Congreve]
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
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