Still I'm wishing still desiring
- DMI number:
- 8284
- First Line:
- Still I'm wishing still desiring
- Last Line:
- Yet you'll never give me all
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song and Sestet aabccb
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Francis Beaumont
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian' Act 5 Scene 1 (1690, ESTC R2373). ESTC notes 'More probably by Fletcher and Philip Massinger'.
- Author:
- John Fletcher
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian' Act 5 Scene 1 (1690, ESTC R2373).
- Author:
- Philip Massinger
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian' Act 5 Scene 1 (1690, ESTC R2373).
- Author:
- Thomas Betterton
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian' Act 5 Scene 1 (1690, ESTC R2373). ODNB entry: 'His production adaptation include [...] The Prophetess (1690), from the Fletcher–Massinger Dioclesian'.
- Title:
- The compleat English secretary, and newest academy of complements [ESTC T188601]
- Page No(s):
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- The Desiring Lovers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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