So gnaws the grief of conscience evermore
- DMI number:
- 13996
- First Line:
- So gnaws the grief of conscience evermore
- Last Line:
- In every place rang death within our ears
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Rhyme royal ababbcc
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- Thomas Sackville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION: extract from The Mirror for Magistrates.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- E. of Dorset in the Mirror for Magistrates
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Sackville
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