Like some despairing wretch
- DMI number:
- 18700
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Like some despairing wretch
- Last Line:
- And catches every slender reed to save him
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Danger and Disaster
- Author:
- Edmund Smith
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Phaedra and Hippolitus Act 2. Chalmers (1810) IX: 179-203.
- 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.93
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Smith's Phed. Hip.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Smith
Poem Aliases
Smith. Phaedra and Hippolitus.
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