Called by my grief Melpomene I come
- DMI number:
- 5684
- First Line:
- Called by my grief Melpomene I come
- Last Line:
- Cure me by death from deathless sad despair
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Susanna Centlivre
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry: 'Susanna's first writings were published in 1700, when she contributed a verse, as Polumnia, to a tribute volume on Dryden's death, The Nine Muses'.
- Title:
- The nine muses or poems written by nine several ladies upon the death of Dryden [R21869]
- Page No(s):
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Polimnia: Of Rhetorick. On the Death of John Dryden Esq;
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. D. E.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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