But ask not bodies doomed to die
- DMI number:
- 14435
- First Line:
- But ask not bodies doomed to die
- Last Line:
- It is not safe to know
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Philosopher and the Lover; to a Mistress dying. Song. ('Your beauty ripe and calm and fresh'). Works (1673): 321.
- First Line:
- Ask not bodies doomed to die
- Last Line:
- It is not safe to know
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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.206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant's Just Italian
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
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