But if a frenzy do possess the brain
- DMI number:
- 16377
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- But if a frenzy do possess the brain
- Last Line:
- If false accords from her false strings be sent
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Madness
- Author:
- Sir John Davies
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Immortality of the Soul. Chalmers (1810) V: 52-100.
- Title:
- 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 II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.210
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir John Davies
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Davies
Poem Aliases
Davies. Immortality of the Soul.
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