Oh the dear hour in which you did resign
- DMI number:
- 5629
- First Line:
- Oh the dear hour in which you did resign
- Last Line:
- Shine all that hour and all the rest be night
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Love and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- William Congreve
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Congreve's 'To Cynthia, weeping and not speaking' ('Why are those hours, which heaven in pity lent') (LION)
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.415
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cong.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
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