If tender infants who imprisoned stay
- DMI number:
- 5561
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- If tender infants who imprisoned stay
- Last Line:
- As backward to be born as we to die
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life and Philosophical enquiry
- Author:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Book VIII of Blackmore's King Arthur (1697): 209.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Blac.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
Poem Aliases
Blackmore. King Arthur.
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