If when the breast is rent with pain
- DMI number:
- 18828
- First Line:
- If when the breast is rent with pain
- Last Line:
- Is then most shy when most he's wanted
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab, Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...], and Address
- Themes:
- Love, Poetry / literature / writing, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Theatre
- Author:
- Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION: with variant ending
- First Line:
- If when the breast is rent with pain
- Last Line:
- And almost think there's nothing wanting
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A new miscellany in prose and verse by Swift, Holles St John and other eminent hands [T67058]
- Page No(s):
- pp.36-38
- Poem Title:
- Verses to Miss Woffington.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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