Our life is nothing but a winter's day
- DMI number:
- 16110
- First Line:
- Our life is nothing but a winter's day
- Last Line:
- Who dies betimes has less and less to pay
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Francis Quarles
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Quarles, Fancies (1633): 147-148.
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- CCXXVIII.
- Poem Title:
- Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CCCXXVIII.
- Poem Title:
- Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Quarles
- Attributed To:
- Francis Quarles
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