Can life be a blessing or worth the possessing
- DMI number:
- 42281
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Can life be a blessing or worth the possessing
- Last Line:
- When we hope when we hope to be happy again
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Sestet abcbcb and Song
- Themes:
- Hope and Love
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant text of song from Dryden's Troilus and Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2. Calif. XIII (1984): 300.
- First Line:
- Can life be a blessing
- Last Line:
- Those heavenly heavenly moments to spend
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Female poems on several occasions [ESTC R24055]
- Page No(s):
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- But for hope Heart would break.
- Attribution:
- Written by Ephelia.
- Attributed To:
- Ephelia
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Troilus and Cressida.
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