Power's a strange thing which even additions make
- DMI number:
- 17249
- First Line:
- Power's a strange thing which even additions make
- Last Line:
- Run over if you add one honour more
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Sesta rima / ababcc and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Ambition, and Fate / fortune / providence[Instability]
- Author:
- Charles Aleyn
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Historie of Henrie the Seventh. Aleyn (1638).
- 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.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Aleyn's Henry VII
- Attributed To:
- Charles Aleyn
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