O wretch hath madness cured thy dire despair
- DMI number:
- 11611
- First Line:
- O wretch hath madness cured thy dire despair
- Last Line:
- Ere pestilence or famine sweep the land
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Complaint and Couplet
- Themes:
- Charity, Money / wealth, Parents and children, and War
- Author:
- Mary Barber
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Lonsdale (1984): 233-4
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions [T42622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.233-235
- Poem Title:
- On seeing an Officer's Widow distracted, who had been driven to Despair, by a long and fruitless Sollicitation for the Arrears of her Pension.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Barber's name
- Attributed To:
- Mary Barber
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions [T42623]
- Page No(s):
- pp.240-242
- Poem Title:
- On seeing an Officer's Widow distracted who had been driven to Despair, by a long and fruitless Sollicitation for the Arrears of her Pension.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Barber's name
- Attributed To:
- Mary Barber
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions [T42643] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.240-242
- Poem Title:
- On seeing an Officer's Widow distracted who had been driven to Despair, by a long and fruitless Sollicitation for the Arrears of her Pension.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Barber's name
- Attributed To:
- Mary Barber
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