I sing but ah my theme I need not tell
- DMI number:
- 11192
- First Line:
- I sing but ah my theme I need not tell
- Last Line:
- Sees his world burst at once and disappear
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy, Mythology, Religion, The monarchy (heads of state)[Anne], and War
- Author:
- Edward Young
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from On the late Queen's Death ('Sir I have long and with impatience sought') Chalmers (1810) XIII: 506-507.
- Title:
- The loyal mourner for the best of princes [T144652]
- Page No(s):
- pp.25-30
- Poem Title:
- On the Late Queen's Death.
- Attribution:
- By Edward Young, L. L. B. and Fellow of All-Souls College, Oxon
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
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