Deep waters silent roul so grief like mine
- DMI number:
- 44667
- First Line:
- Deep waters silent roul so grief like mine
- Last Line:
- For to make him she exhausted all her store
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Eulogy, Elegy, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- Anne Wharton [nee Lee]
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt, eds. 'Write or be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints' (Oxford: Routledge, 2016) Identifies Mrs Wh- as Anne Wharton: 'However other contemporary editors of miscellanies were not as discreet - or perhaps anxious. Nahum Tate printed the elegy for Rochester in 1685 as 'By Mrs Wh-'
- Dedicatee:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems by several hands on several occasions [R22319]
- Page No(s):
- p.392-393
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on the Earl of Rochester
- Attribution:
- By Mrs Wh-
- Attributed To:
- Anne Wharton [nee Lee]
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