The rose is fragrant but it fades in time
- DMI number:
- 30380
- First Line:
- The rose is fragrant but it fades in time
- Last Line:
- And whiter snow in minutes melts away
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Moral and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Beauty
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Despairing Lover ('With inauspicious love a wretched swain'). Calif. III (1969): 71 [Theocritus 23]
- First Line:
- With inauspicious love a wretched swain
- Last Line:
- Thus warned be wise and love for love return
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [N67747] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- XXII. Beauty's a fair but fading Flower; or, External Charms are very precarious Blessings.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T127913] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- XXII. Beauty's a fair but fading Flower; Or, Eternal Charms are very precarious Blessings.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T128069] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- XXII. Beauty's a fair but fading Flower; or, External Charms are very precarious Blessings.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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