Can life be a blessing
- DMI number:
- 42782
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Can life be a blessing
- Last Line:
- Those heavenly heavenly moments to spend
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Septet / seven-line stanza and Song
- Themes:
- Hope and Love
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Song from Dryden's Troilus and Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2; variant text, with addition of a third stanza. Calif. XIII (1984): 300.
- First Line:
- Can life be a blessing or worth the possessing
- Last Line:
- When we hope when we hope to be happy again
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Academy of Complements with Many New Additions [ESTC R28041]
- Page No(s):
- pp.376-7
- Poem Title:
- Song 261.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The compleat courtier: or, Cupid's academy [ESTC R184126]
- Page No(s):
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Troilus and Cressida. Act 3.
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