Passions are like thieves | That watch to enter undefended places
- DMI number:
- 17039
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Passions are like thieves | That watch to enter undefended places
- Last Line:
- Between wild beasts and man
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Blank verse, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Animals and Virtue / vice[Self-control - Passions]
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Blind Lady' Act 1 Scene 2. Howard (1696): 29-140.
- 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):
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir R. Howard's Blind Lady
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
Poem Aliases
The Blind Lady.
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