Who soars too near the sun with golden wings
- DMI number:
- 13445
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Who soars too near the sun with golden wings
- Last Line:
- Melts them to ruin his own fortune brings
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Thomas Lord Cromwell Act 4 Scene 1.
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear's Cromwell
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. Thomas Lord Cromwell.
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