Upon the slippery tops of human state
- DMI number:
- 22901
- First Line:
- Upon the slippery tops of human state
- Last Line:
- Nor what he is nor whither he's to go
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Retirement
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Waller (1906): 399.
- First Line:
- Upon the slippery tops of human state
- Last Line:
- Alas all then are such as well as I
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on moral and divine subjects by several celebrated English poets [T121853]
- Page No(s):
- pp.190-191
- Poem Title:
- Of Obscurity.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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