Better were worse for no affliction
- DMI number:
- 13378
- First Line:
- Better were worse for no affliction
- Last Line:
- No cross is so extreme as to have none
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Donne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Cross'. Smith (1971): 326.
- 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.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Donne
- Attributed To:
- John Donne
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