Oh how I languish what a strange
- DMI number:
- 1442
- First Line:
- Oh how I languish what a strange
- Last Line:
- And gloriously he dies
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Song
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Sheffield
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) X: 83.
- First Line:
- Good angels snatched him eagerly on high
- Last Line:
- Nothing but elevated thoughts and gentle soft desires
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- From wars and plagues come no such harms
- Last Line:
- Unless you love you please in vain
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Page No(s):
- pp.410-411
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- 'By the same Hand' [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.179-180
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Page No(s):
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Altar of Love [12 Theta 1321]
- Page No(s):
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Sheffield's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
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