What state of life can be so blest
- DMI number:
- 37848
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What state of life can be so blest
- Last Line:
- Thou tyrant tyrant of the mind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lyric and Couplet
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Song extracted from Dryden's Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail, Act 3 Scene 1. Calif. XVI (1998): 207-8.
- First Line:
- What state of life can be so blessed
- Last Line:
- In only thee | O jealousy &c
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- What state of life can be so blest
- Last Line:
- The fire that burns and gives no light
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [2nd ed] [Vol 3] [T83735] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.272-273
- Poem Title:
- IX. Jealousy Tyrant of the Mind
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [3rd ed] [Vol 3] [T82693] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.272-273
- Poem Title:
- IX. Jealousy Tyrant of the Mind
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [4th ed] [Vol 3] [T81998] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.273-274
- Poem Title:
- IX. Jealousy Tyrant of the Mind
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Love Triumphant.
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