Ah why are not the hearts of women known
- DMI number:
- 19102
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Ah why are not the hearts of women known
- Last Line:
- But that which sick men have of life their pains
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Conquest of Granada Act 3. Calif. XI (1978): 136 [last line comes before first in play: ll.38 & 22].
- First Line:
- Ah why are not the hearts of woman known
- Last Line:
- But that we most desire to keep has none
- 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.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Conq. Gran.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Conquest of Granada.
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