When dreadful swelling seas through boisterous windy blasts

DMI number:

8890

First Line:

When dreadful swelling seas through boisterous windy blasts

Last Line:

Is with the less then when the more to cause delight is spent

Poem Genre / Form:

Sestet aabbcc and Song

Themes:

Joyfulness / happiness and Virtue / vice

Content/Publication

Title:

Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who flourish’d in the reign of Henry the Eighth... With the poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, and others his Famous Contemporaries. [T68161]

Page No(s):

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

The felicitie of a mynde imbracing virtue, that beholdeth the wretched desyres of the worlde.

Attribution:

Vncertaine Auctors.

Attributed To:

Not attributed