Oh these passions | Are but the cracks and splinters of the soul
- DMI number:
- 17040
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Oh these passions | Are but the cracks and splinters of the soul
- Last Line:
- And set low values upon foreign wares
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Commerce[Shipping - mercantilism] and Virtue / vice[Self-regulation]
- Author:
- Sir Francis Fane
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business' Act 1 (1675, ESTC R16385).
- 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):
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Fane's Love in the dark
- Attributed To:
- Sir Francis Fane
Poem Aliases
Fane. Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business.
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