Lust never takes joy in what is due
- DMI number:
- 15642
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Lust never takes joy in what is due
- Last Line:
- But still leaves known delights to seek out new
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Samuel Daniel
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from A letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius. Chalmers (1810) III: 567-571.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Daniel's Octatvia to Antonius
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Daniel
Poem Aliases
Daniel. Letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius.
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