True love is never happy but by halves
- DMI number:
- 19459
- First Line:
- True love is never happy but by halves
- Last Line:
- It smiles by moments but it mourns by years
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Love
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from King Arthur Act 3. Calif. XVI (1998): 44.
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. K. Arthur.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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