Oh let me live for ever on those lips
- DMI number:
- 19251
- First Line:
- Oh let me live for ever on those lips
- Last Line:
- The nectar of the gods to these is tasteless
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Amphitryon Act 1 Scene 2. Calif. XV (1976): 241.
- 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.212
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ibid [i.e. Dr. Amph.]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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