My age is not a moment's stay
- DMI number:
- 16075
- First Line:
- My age is not a moment's stay
- Last Line:
- And fade that instant that I blow
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, Y50B ('Doubtfully by Swift')
- First Line:
- The rose's age is but a day
- Last Line:
- It blows at morn and fades at night
- Relationship:
- Parody Of/Parodied By
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- CXIII.
- Poem Title:
- Imitated on a F--t.
- Attribution:
- By Dean S.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CXIII.
- Poem Title:
- Imitated on a F--t.
- Attribution:
- By Dean S.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- On a F--t
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes, published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana... [ESTC T53830]
- Page No(s):
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- Imitated, on a F---:
- Attribution:
- By J-- S--.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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