If virtue's self were lost we might
- DMI number:
- 30105
- First Line:
- If virtue's self were lost we might
- Last Line:
- The heart you get returns no more
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To a Lady from whom he received the foregoing copy, which for many years had been lost ('Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 68.
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol I] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
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