If death comes on as soon as breath departs

DMI number:

34943

First Line:

If death comes on as soon as breath departs

Last Line:

The death's a fart and so a fart for death

Poem Genre / Form:

Epitaph and Couplet

Themes:

Death

Related People

Author:

Thomas Brown

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Variant of 'An extempore Epigram on Death'. Brown (1715) IV: 33.

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If death must come as oft as breath departs

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Content/Publication

Title:

A new select collection of epitaphs [vol 2] [T136904] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.94

Poem Title:

On Death.

Attribution:

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