Pleasures like wonders quickly lose their price
- DMI number:
- 17198
- First Line:
- Pleasures like wonders quickly lose their price
- Last Line:
- When reason or experience makes us wise
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Nature[Wonders]
- Author:
- Henry King
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'That Fruition destroyes Love.' King (1664): 75-80.
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Bishop King
- Attributed To:
- Henry King
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