This posture and these tears that heaven might move

DMI number:

6982

First Line:

This posture and these tears that heaven might move

Last Line:

The plaintive waters utter as they flow

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram and Couplet

Themes:

Grief / sadness / melancholy, Love, and Sex / relations between the sexes

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Author:

Ambrose Philips

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Segar (1937): 131.

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Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]

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p.285

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