Cease tempting siren cease thy flattering strain
- DMI number:
- 22887
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Cease tempting siren cease thy flattering strain
- Last Line:
- By different paths and none are in the right
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Epistle
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- George Granville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) XI: 14-15.
- First Line:
- Why Granville is thy life to shades confined
- Last Line:
- She needs must love and we shall have you back again
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame
- Last Line:
- And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Whoever thou art who temptst in such a strain
- Last Line:
- By several ways and none are in the right
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on moral and divine subjects by several celebrated English poets [T121853]
- Page No(s):
- pp.111-114
- Poem Title:
- Occasioned By The Foregoing Verses Written In The Year MDCXC.
- Attribution:
- Lansdown.
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
Poem Aliases
Granville. Occasioned by the foregoing verses.
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