O sons of earth attempt ye still to rise
- DMI number:
- 34229
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- O sons of earth attempt ye still to rise
- Last Line:
- And buries madmen in the heaps they raise
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Man Epistle IV. Twickenham edition III i.
- First Line:
- O happiness our being's end and aim
- Last Line:
- And all our knowledge is ourselves to know
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Walking amusements for chearful christians [T176253] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope's Essay on Man.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Walking amusements for chearful christians [T80898] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope's Essay on Man
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 4.
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