If love's a sweet passion why does it torment
- DMI number:
- 12625
- First Line:
- If love's a sweet passion why does it torment
- Last Line:
- And our eyes tell each other what neither durst name
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Love and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Elkanah Settle
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION: extract from Settle's The Fairy Queen (1692) Act 3.
- Author:
- Robert Lucke
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- A miscellany of new poems on several occasions [T121619]
- Page No(s):
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- The Latin of the following Song was sung when the Gentlemen of Barum School acted Terence's Comedy call'd, The Self-Tormentor.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Lucke's name
- Attributed To:
- Robert Lucke
- Title:
- A miscellany of new poems on several occasions [T121676] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- The Latin of the following Song was sung when the Gentlemen of Barum School acted Terence's Comedy call'd, The Self-Tormentor.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Lucke's name
- Attributed To:
- Robert Lucke
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