All melancholy lying
- DMI number:
- 31511
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- All melancholy lying
- Last Line:
- She bowed her head and died
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Death and Women / the female character
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The What d'ye call it Act 2 Scene 8. Fuller (1983) I.
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol 2] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gay's
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
Poem Aliases
Gay. What d'ye call it.
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