While the sad tale with accents sweet
- DMI number:
- 30514
- First Line:
- While the sad tale with accents sweet
- Last Line:
- And no returns of pity need
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy and Parents and children
- Author:
- Josiah Relph
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION: extract from 'Occasion'd by a little Miss's bursting out into tears upon reading the Ballad of the Babes in the Wood' ('As the sad tale with accents sweet')
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.86-87
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Young Lady who wept reading the Babes of the Wood
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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