How could I dwell for ever on these lips
- DMI number:
- 19248
- First Line:
- How could I dwell for ever on these lips
- Last Line:
- That ripened peaches have not half their flavour
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Amphitryon Act 2 Scene 2. Calif. XV (1976): 257.
- First Line:
- How I could dwell for ever on those lips
- Last Line:
- That ripened peaches have not half the flavour
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Amph.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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