Some man unworthy to be possessor

DMI number:

6709

First Line:

Some man unworthy to be possessor

Last Line:

But doth waste with greediness

Poem Genre / Form:

Lyric and Septet / seven-line stanza

Themes:

Love and Sex / relations between the sexes

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Author:

John Donne

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Smith (1971): 49.

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Content/Publication

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. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Donne

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Poems on several occasions. Written by the Reverend John Donne [T96902]

Page No(s):

pp.25-26

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Confined Love.

Attribution:

Collected under John Donne's poems

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Title:

The fourth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]

Page No(s):

pp.80-81

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'By the same Hand' i.e. Donne.

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The fourth part of miscellany poems [N64834]

Page No(s):

p.82

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