Thus grief and gladness still by turns do come

DMI number:

17188

Poem Aliases

Orestes.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Thus grief and gladness still by turns do come

Last Line:

Of shining comfort slideth soon away

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Couplet

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts and Grief / sadness / melancholy

Related People

Author:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from 'Orestes' Act 5 Scene 8. (1633: ESTC S103295).

Content/Publication

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.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Goffe's Orestes

Attributed To:

Thomas Goffe [Gough]