Now sunk in grief and pining with despair

DMI number:

19020

Poem Aliases

Rowe. Jane Shore.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Now sunk in grief and pining with despair

Last Line:

And wakes to sigh the live long nights away

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

Grief / sadness / melancholy

Related People

Author:

Nicholas Rowe

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Jane Shore Act 1 Scene 1. Dramatic Works II.

Content/Publication

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.162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rowe's J. Shore.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe