The flickering flame that flieth from ear to ear

DMI number:

9027

First Line:

The flickering flame that flieth from ear to ear

Last Line:

And in such choice shall stand my wealth and woe

Poem Genre / Form:

Sesta rima / ababcc

Themes:

Marriage and Women / the female character

Content/Publication

Title:

Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who flourish’d in the reign of Henry the Eighth... With the poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, and others his Famous Contemporaries. [T68161]

Page No(s):

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

Of the Choyse of a Wife.

Attribution:

Vncertaine Auctors.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Songs and Sonnets (1st edition) [S93062]

Page No(s):

Bbiir-Bbiiv

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Songs and Sonnets (2nd edition) [S106407]

Page No(s):

sig. Yiir

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Songs and Sonnets (3rd edition) [S125715]

Page No(s):

Yiir

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

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Not attributed

Title:

Songs and Sonnets [S106259] [13864]

Page No(s):

L6r

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

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Title:

Songs and Sonnets [S106335] [13866]

Page No(s):

L6r

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Songs and Sonnets [S106338] [13867]

Page No(s):

L6r-L6v

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Songs and Sonnets [S118799] [13868]

Page No(s):

L1v

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

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Title:

Songs and Sonnets [S122122] [13863]

Page No(s):

L6r

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Songs and Sonnets [S93065] [13865]

Page No(s):

L6r

Poem Title:

Of the choice of a wife.

Attribution:

None

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Not attributed