Thus while she sleeps gods do descend and kiss
- DMI number:
- 16006
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Thus while she sleeps gods do descend and kiss
- Last Line:
- They lend all others breath but borrow this
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- William Cartwright
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Siege Act 5 Scene 3. Evans (1951).
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.141
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cartwright's Siege
- Attributed To:
- William Cartwright
Poem Aliases
Cartwright. Siege.
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