But O I see our hoped good deceives us
- DMI number:
- 15157
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- But O I see our hoped good deceives us
- Last Line:
- But what we would forego that seldom leaves us
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy and Hope
- Author:
- Michael Drayton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Matilda to King John. Chalmers (1810) IV: 62-63.
- 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.58
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Drayton's Matilda to K. John
- Attributed To:
- Michael Drayton
Poem Aliases
Drayton. Matilda to King John
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