I'll teach him a receipt to make
- DMI number:
- 5630
- First Line:
- I'll teach him a receipt to make
- Last Line:
- At which the soul goes out too with the breath
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Ode
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cowley's 'The Prophet' ('Teach me to love? Go teach thyself more wit'), Waller (1905): 102.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.420
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
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