We happier are than they who but desired
- DMI number:
- 16910
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- We happier are than they who but desired
- Last Line:
- As coals to ashes when the spirit's spent
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Age
- Author:
- Sir John Denham
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Of Old Age (Part 4). Chalmers (1810) VII: 259-267.
- Title:
- 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 II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.309
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ibid [i.e. Denham]
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
Poem Aliases
Denham. Of old age.
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