In vain alas my friend you strive
- DMI number:
- 21478
- First Line:
- In vain alas my friend you strive
- Last Line:
- Whilst cruel raging death your feeble love disarms
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Septet ababccc
- Themes:
- Death
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
- Page No(s):
- pp.252-257
- Poem Title:
- An Ode. On the Uncertainty of Life and Certainty of Death. To his very good Friend R. F. who had retir'd to the Country for Recovery of his Health, in 1716.
- Attribution:
- 'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
- Attributed To:
- John Winstanley
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