The shaken tree grows faster at the root

DMI number:

27822

First Line:

The shaken tree grows faster at the root

Last Line:

And love grows firmer from some blasts of doubt

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram and Couplet

Themes:

Love

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Author:

Francis Quarles

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Variant of 'On Faith'. Quarles, Fancies (1633): 153.

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Th' oft shaken tree grows faster at the root

Last Line:

And faith's most firm that's sometimes urged with doubt

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Content/Publication

Title:

Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]

Page No(s):

p.48

Poem Title:

On Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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