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Hidden Grief single work   poetry   "There is a Grief, to all unknown,"
Composed: Sandy Bay, Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
Issue Details: First known date: 1846... 1846 Hidden Grief
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Nullis est medicabilis herbis. - Ovid. Met. lib. i.

    A Grief which medicine cannot cure.

  • Editor's note: [In reference to the lines "But what it is, no one can tell,/ Save the sad heart that knows too well."] Strangulat inclusus dolor, atque exoestuat intus. - Ovid. Trists. lib. v.

    Concealed Grief strangles the soul, and exerts a raging power within.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Courier 7 January 1846 Z1349062 1846 newspaper issue 1846 pg. 4
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