We're ill by these grammarians used
- DMI number:
- 24962
- First Line:
- We're ill by these grammarians used
- Last Line:
- Are but the empty dreams which in death's sleep we make
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Moral and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life, Poetry / literature / writing, and Religion
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cowley's 'Life'; Waller (1905): 209.
- Title:
- A collection of moral and sacred poems from the most celebrated English authors [vol I] [T16524] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- Life
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
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