Frail Glass thou mortal art as well as I
- DMI number:
- 24879
- First Line:
- Frail Glass thou mortal art as well as I
- Last Line:
- Mayst die like me by chance but not by nature
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Answer/reply
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Sir Benjamin Rudyerd
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, 861A (Exchanges (parts of) with Swift: poems to which he responded or vice versa)
- First Line:
- Frail glass thou bearest my name as well as I
- Last Line:
- And who can tell in which it first shall die
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- CCXCIX. The following Lines were wrote upon a very old Glass of Sir Arthur Acheson's.
- Attribution:
- Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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