When heaven would strive to do the best it can

DMI number:

8688

Poem Aliases

Drayton. Henry Howard to the Lady Geraldine.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

When heaven would strive to do the best it can

Last Line:

Shall put fresh blood into thy withered veins

Poem Genre / Form:

Fragment and Couplet

Themes:

Poetry / literature / writing

Related People

Author:

Michael Drayton

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine. Chalmers (1810) IV: 96-98.

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First Line:

When heaven would strive to do the best it can

Last Line:

We likewise share a second power by death

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Content/Publication

Title:

Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who flourish’d in the reign of Henry the Eighth... With the poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, and others his Famous Contemporaries. [T68161]

Page No(s):

p.xiv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Drayton in his Heroic Epistles written in Imitation of Ovid's....

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton