What in this life that soon must end
- DMI number:
- 9425
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What in this life that soon must end
- Last Line:
- No perfect good is to be found
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Complaint and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Otway
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Sixteenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace'. Chalmers (1810) VIII: 298.
- First Line:
- In storms when clouds the moon do hide
- Last Line:
- Shunning the knaves and fools I scorn
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- What in this life which soon must end
- Last Line:
- No perfect good is to be found
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- On Baneful Care.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- On Baneful Care.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Page No(s):
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- On Baneful Care.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
Poem Aliases
Horace's Odes. Book 2 Ode 16.
Related People
Related Poems
Content/Publication