O grief of grief o gall of all good hearts

DMI number:

17104

Poem Aliases

Spenser. Ruines of time

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

O grief of grief o gall of all good hearts

Last Line:

Alive or dead be by the muse adorned

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work and Rhyme royal ababbcc

Themes:

Memory, Poetry / literature / writing, and Virtue / vice

Related People

Author:

Edmund Spenser

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from The Ruines of Time, McCabe 166-188.

Content/Publication

Title:

[vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]

Page No(s):

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser, Ibid [i.e. from 'Spenser's Ruins of Time']

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser