Ask not the world what treasure it has lost

DMI number:

8264

First Line:

Ask not the world what treasure it has lost

Last Line:

Clothe thy own soul and make the saint complete

Poem Genre / Form:

Elegy and Couplet

Themes:

Death and Women / the female character

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Content/Publication

Title:

Poems on several occasions: by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham... And other eminent Hands. [T42637]

Page No(s):

p.163

Poem Title:

Upon the Lady S----d after she was dead.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones: Or a curious collection of above 900 of the most remarkable epitaphs [vol I] [T55764] [gb]

Page No(s):

p.380

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Anne Potter.

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Attributed To:

Not attributed