Alive I'll pray till breath in prayers be lost

DMI number:

9449

Poem Aliases

Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book 9.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Alive I'll pray till breath in prayers be lost

Last Line:

And after come a kind beseeching ghost

Poem Genre / Form:

Fragment and Couplet

Themes:

God

Related People

Author:

John Oldham

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from 'The Passion of Byblis'. Oldham (1684) I: 119-138.

Content/Publication

Title:

Familiar letters of love, gallantry, and several other occasions by the wits of the last and present age [vol I] [T64784]

Page No(s):

p.66

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Mr. Oldham has render’d it thus:

Attributed To:

John Oldham