Tender softness infant mild
- DMI number:
- 29608
- First Line:
- Tender softness infant mild
- Last Line:
- Partner in thy destiny
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Parents and children
- Author:
- Mehetabel Wright [née Wesley]
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- In Lonsdale, Roger, Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Anthology. Forster (1980): 71.
- First Line:
- Destined while living to sustain
- Last Line:
- A broken heart can bleed no more
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- How can the muse attempt the string
- Last Line:
- And honoured by the muse he loved
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- How rare the piece where heaven and nature join
- Last Line:
- Preserve ennoble and adorn the whole
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- If happy spirits are allowed to know
- Last Line:
- Most worthy friend a long and last adieu
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Wear pleasure Stella on thy face
- Last Line:
- Yet laugh and live today
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- While sickness rends this tenement of clay
- Last Line:
- Till borne by friendly arms to welcome rest
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. VI. For June. [T146608]
- Page No(s):
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- A Mother's Soliloquy Over Her Dying Infant.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Wright.
- Attributed To:
- Mehetabel Wright [née Wesley]
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