The happiest man that ever breathed on earth
- DMI number:
- 30193
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The happiest man that ever breathed on earth
- Last Line:
- Sometimes as tis a miracle we live
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy[suffering] and Joyfulness / happiness
- Author:
- John Pomfret
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from To his Friend under Affliction ('None lives in this tumultuous state of things'. Chalmers (1810) VIII: 318-319.
- First Line:
- None lives in this tumultuous state of things
- Last Line:
- Relieves the anguish or rewards the pain
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- pp.148-150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pomfret. To his friend under affliction.
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