So short is this life that every peasant strives
- DMI number:
- 42001
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- So short is this life that every peasant strives
- Last Line:
- Fit to become Methuselah his page
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Complaint, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Age and Time
- Author:
- John Donne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- CHECK: adapted snippets from The First Anniversary.
- Title:
- A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- Page No(s):
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Donne. First Anniversary.
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