The nimble moth around the taper plays
- DMI number:
- 30341
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The nimble moth around the taper plays
- Last Line:
- A bright destruction and a shining tomb
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life and Joyfulness / happiness
- Author:
- Thomas Tickell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Fatal Curiosity ('Much had I heard of fair Francelia's name'). Chalmers (1810) XI: 113.
- First Line:
- Much had I heard of fair Francelia's name
- Last Line:
- A bright destruction and a shining tomb
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- p.174
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Tickell. Fatal Curiosity.
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