This brittle glass of life already broken

DMI number:

40793

First Line:

This brittle glass of life already broken

Last Line:

All outward signs of penitence else are useless

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

Death

Content/Publication

Title:

[vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]

Page No(s):

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Massinger's Emperor of the East

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger