What in this life which soon must end
- DMI number:
- 28538
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What in this life which soon must end
- Last Line:
- Out run the doe out fly the wind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- 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:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- Care.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Horace's Odes. Book 2 Ode 16.
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