The world's a printing house our words are thoughts
- DMI number:
- 17426
- First Line:
- The world's a printing house our words are thoughts
- Last Line:
- We're gathered sheet by sheet and bound for heaven
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Sestet ababcc
- Themes:
- Death, Printing / publishing, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Francis Quarles
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of 'On a Printing-House'. Quarles, Fancies (1633): 164.
- First Line:
- The world's a printing house our words our thoughts
- Last Line:
- We're gathered sheet by sheet and bound for heaven
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- CDXCI.
- Poem Title:
- The World.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CDXCI.
- Poem Title:
- The World.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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