When heaven would strive to do the best it can
- DMI number:
- 17202
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- When heaven would strive to do the best it can
- Last Line:
- We likewise share a second power by death
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- God, Memory, Poetry / literature / writing, and Religion[Angels]
- Author:
- Michael Drayton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine. Chalmers (1810) IV: 96-98.
- First Line:
- When heaven would strive to do the best it can
- Last Line:
- Shall put fresh blood into thy withered veins
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Drayton's E. of Surry to Lady Geraldine
- Attributed To:
- Michael Drayton
Poem Aliases
Drayton. Henry Howard to the Lady Geraldine.
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