Oppressed with grief in heavy strains I mourn
- DMI number:
- 23074
- First Line:
- Oppressed with grief in heavy strains I mourn
- Last Line:
- Are now doomed victims to the teeth of rats
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Mock elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Animals and Death
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by the late John Winstanley...interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [vol II] [N21265] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.293-296
- Poem Title:
- The Poet's Lamentation for the Loss of his Cat, which he used to call his Muse.
- Attribution:
- Dr. Winstanley's Poems.
- Attributed To:
- John Winstanley
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