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The gods at first in pity to our race

DMI number:
7012
First Line:
The gods at first in pity to our race
Last Line:
We'd changed our passion and had died for grief
Poem Genre / Form:
Epigram and Couplet
Themes:
Illness, injury and Love
Related People
Author:
Sir Richard Steele
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Marked as a doubtful attribution by Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins. Gillespie and Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008), VI: xi.
Content/Publication
Title:
Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
Page No(s):
pp.536-537
Poem Title:
On The Countess of B--wt--r's Recovery
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
Page No(s):
p.170
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Br---wt---r's Recovery.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
Page No(s):
p.238
Poem Title:
On the Countess of B--wt--r's Recovery.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed