Joys are not joys that always stay
- DMI number:
- 15793
- First Line:
- Joys are not joys that always stay
- Last Line:
- And constant pleasures don't delight but cloy
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Joyfulness / happiness
- Author:
- Alexander Brome
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To a Widow ('Nay dry for shame those blubbered eyes'). Brome (1661): 18-19.
- 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. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Alex. Brome
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Brome
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