Toggle navigation
Blacklight
Bookmarks (
0
)
History
Login
Search in
All Fields
Related People
Poem Title In Miscellany
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Blacklight
Toggle facets
Limit your search
Content type
Poem
765
Related People
Not attributed
323
John Dryden
78
William Shakespeare
35
Horace
31
Alexander Pope
22
Nathaniel Lee
17
Thomas Otway
12
Lucan
10
William Hay
9
George Granville
8
more
Related People
»
Poem Theme
Fate / fortune / providence
[remove]
765
Death
60
Virtue / vice
49
God
46
Love
38
The happy man / contentment
31
Advice / moral precepts
29
The monarchy (heads of state)
28
Religion
27
Mythology
22
more
Poem Theme
»
Poem Genre / Form
Extract / snippet from longer work
336
Couplet
261
Imitation / translation / paraphrase
118
Ode
54
Epigram
52
Quatrain abab
46
Song
30
Blank verse
28
Quatrain aabb
24
Fable
17
more
Poem Genre / Form
»
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Poem Theme
Fate / fortune / providence
Remove constraint Poem Theme: Fate / fortune / providence
« Previous
|
251
-
260
of
765
|
Next »
Number of results to display per page
10 per page
10
per page
20
per page
50
per page
100
per page
View results as:
List
Gallery
Search Results
251.
How great a number in one rigid fate
First Line:
How great a number in one rigid fate
Last Line:
To make a court to one so young so fair
DMI number:
44202
252.
How happy is the prisoner who conquers his fate
First Line:
How happy is the prisoner who conquers his fate
Last Line:
For man is the worlds epitome
DMI number:
42949
253.
Here the opening land invites with outstretched arms
First Line:
Here the opening land invites with outstretched arms
Last Line:
And stretched on oozy beds securely sleep
DMI number:
39672
254.
How short is life's uncertain space
First Line:
How short is life's uncertain space
Last Line:
Be centred in a friend
Author:
James Merrick (Absolute)
DMI number:
27721
255.
How soon with nimble wings our pleasures haste
First Line:
How soon with nimble wings our pleasures haste
Last Line:
And so much beauty well might death delay
Author:
James Marriott (Absolute)
DMI number:
32617
256.
How unhappy is my fate
First Line:
How unhappy is my fate
Last Line:
And dying sighed and thought of you
DMI number:
42784
257.
How wretched is a woman's fate
First Line:
How wretched is a woman's fate
Last Line:
That I may cheerfully your will obey
DMI number:
21599
258.
However great whoever you are
First Line:
However great whoever you are
Last Line:
Whose lofty masts the clouds divide
Author:
James Ward (Absolute)
DMI number:
7434
259.
However tis well that whilst mankind
First Line:
However tis well that whilst mankind
Last Line:
And Phillis but a perjured whore
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
44692
260.
However tis well that whilst mankind
First Line:
However tis well that whilst mankind
Last Line:
And Phyllis but a perjured whore
DMI number:
44691
« Previous
Next »
1
2
…
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
…
76
77