Keep down ye rising sighs
- DMI number:
- 20775
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Keep down ye rising sighs
- Last Line:
- Blow the blood out and burst me like a bladder
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- Nathaniel Lee
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great', Act 2, Scene 1. Lee (1694): 4th pagination, 22.
- First Line:
- Keep down ye rising sighs
- Last Line:
- And burst it like a bladder
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus [II] [T134540] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.210
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Alex.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
Poem Aliases
Lee. Rival Queens. Act 2.
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