Shade
Details
Type: Index
Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/1143 (Lt 15 )
Title: Shade
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1695
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/99098
Description
Notes: (Behold Alexis see)
First lines: Behold Alexis see this gloomy shade
Which seems alone for sorrow's shelter made
Last lines: For fragrant myrtle & the blushing rose
Here baleful yew with deadly cypress grows
Length: 12
Verse form: Couplets
Contents: Description of a gloomy place devoid of all light and natural life;
the opening twelve lines of Congreve's "The Mourning Muse of Alexis",
elegiac lament for the death of Mary II.