What heart but yours could hold this double fire
- DMI number:
- 1435
- First Line:
- What heart but yours could hold this double fire
- Last Line:
- The weak prevailed and the victorious died
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes and Religion
- Author:
- John Sheffield
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of To a Lady Retiring into a Monastery ('What breast but yours can hold the double fire'). Chalmers (1810) X: 87.
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Page No(s):
- pp.327-330
- Poem Title:
- To a Person who was Designing to retire into a Monastery.
- Attribution:
- Written by the E. of M-. now D. of B-
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Page No(s):
- pp.146-147
- Poem Title:
- To a Person who was Designing to retire into a Monastery.
- Attribution:
- Written by the E. of M-. now D. of B-
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Altar of Love [12 Theta 1321]
- Page No(s):
- pp.60-63
- Poem Title:
- To a Person, who was designing to retire into a Monastery
- Attribution:
- Collected under Sheffield's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- To a Person who was Designing to retire into a Monastery.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Earl of M------, now D. of B------.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
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