These starts are the convulsions of weak reason
- DMI number:
- 17038
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- These starts are the convulsions of weak reason
- Last Line:
- And watched by reason into gentleness
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Blank verse, Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice[Self-control]
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Vestal Virgin' Act 1 Scene 1. Howard (1692).
- First Line:
- These starts are the convulsions of weak reason
- Last Line:
- And watched by reason with gentleness
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ibid [i.e. 'Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgin']
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
Poem Aliases
The Vestal Virgin.
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