Happy Cleora was the time

DMI number:

8265

First Line:

Happy Cleora was the time

Last Line:

And has but t'other half to fear

Poem Genre / Form:

Quatrain aabb

Themes:

Marriage, Retirement, and Women / the female character[Cleora]

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Content/Publication

Title:

Poems on several occasions: by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham... And other eminent Hands. [T42637]

Page No(s):

pp.164-166

Poem Title:

Upon Cleora's Marriage and Retirement.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed