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Cease all my tuneful sisters now restrain

DMI number:
5682
First Line:
Cease all my tuneful sisters now restrain
Last Line:
For nature can no second Dryden give
Poem Genre / Form:
Elegy and Couplet
Themes:
Death and Poetry / literature / writing
Related People
Author:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
BL C.59.i.25.(1) has 'Trotter' in pencil (p. 15); Gosse attributes this poem to 'Catherine Trotter, afterwards Cockburn'. Kelley p. 9.
Content/Publication
Title:
The nine muses or poems written by nine several ladies upon the death of Dryden [R21869]
Page No(s):
pp.15-17
Poem Title:
Calliope: The Heroick Muse. On the Death of John Dryden, Esq;
Attribution:
By Mrs C. T.
Attributed To:
Not attributed