Whilst tears overflow the royal widow's bed
- DMI number:
- 7015
- First Line:
- Whilst tears overflow the royal widow's bed
- Last Line:
- And the queen's life the world's repose secures
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and The monarchy (heads of state)[Anne; Prince George of Denmark]
- Author:
- Sir Richard Steele
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Marked as a doubtful attribution by Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins. Gillespie and Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008), VI: xi.
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Page No(s):
- pp.547-548
- Poem Title:
- To The Queen; Upon the Death of His Royal Highness
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen; upon the Death of His Royal Highness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Page No(s):
- p.243
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen; upon the Death of His Royal Highness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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