Break sacred morn on our expecting isle
- DMI number:
- 43018
- First Line:
- Break sacred morn on our expecting isle
- Last Line:
- As flints are struck before they show their fires
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Occasional poem, Panegyric, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Creation, Glories of past ages, Justice / injustice, Other countries[France.], Patriotism / glory of the British nation, Politics, and The monarchy (heads of state)[Charles II.]
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Attributed to Waller by Gilbert Burnet, in a contents list with the entry ‘Waller's Verses on the New Parl., 1679’; see G. Thorn-Drury, 'Waller: Some Uncollected Verses', Notes & Queries, 11th Ser. 5 (1912), 305. The attribution is rejected by Margaret C. Deas in A Study of the Life and Poetry of Edmund Waller (unpublished PhD dissertation, Cambridge, 1931), pp. 316-17.
- Title:
- Rome rhym'd to death. Being a collection of choice poems: in two parts [ESTC R16454]
- Page No(s):
- pp.88-90
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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