Angels and ministers of grace defend us
- DMI number:
- 37361
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Angels and ministers of grace defend us
- Last Line:
- With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Death, Fate / fortune / providence, Grief / sadness / melancholy, Other countries, Religion, The monarchy (heads of state), Virtue / vice, and Visions
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Hamlet Act 1 Scene 4.
- First Line:
- Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned
- Last Line:
- With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Angels and ministers of grace defend us
- Last Line:
- Unmixed with baser matter
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets [T115504] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.251-252
- Poem Title:
- Hamlet, on the Appearance of his Father's Ghost.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. [T119553] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- Hamlet, on the Appearance of his Father's Ghost. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets ... The fourth edition [T121136] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- Hamlet, on the Appearance of his Father's Ghost. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. ... The fifth edition [T202612] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- Hamlet, on the Appearance of his Father's Ghost. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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