Despair takes heart when there's no hope to speed
- DMI number:
- 14487
- First Line:
- Despair takes heart when there's no hope to speed
- Last Line:
- The coward then takes arms and does the deed
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- Robert Herrick
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Herrick (1825) II: 160.
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Herrick
- Attributed To:
- Robert Herrick
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