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361.
What if serenely blessed with calms I swam
First Line:
What if serenely blessed with calms I swam
Last Line:
My soul to endless shades my body to the dust
Author:
Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer] (Confident)
DMI number:
4096
362.
What in this life that soon must end
First Line:
What in this life that soon must end
Last Line:
No perfect good is to be found
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
9425
363.
What in this life which soon must end
First Line:
What in this life which soon must end
Last Line:
No perfect good is to be found
DMI number:
39337
364.
What in this life which soon must end
First Line:
What in this life which soon must end
Last Line:
Out run the doe out fly the wind
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
28538
365.
What is a man a congregation
First Line:
What is a man a congregation
Last Line:
And pleasure o the gods the lords of all
Author:
John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:
16421
366.
What is man | If his chief good and market of his time
First Line:
What is man | If his chief good and market of his time
Last Line:
To rust in us unused
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
19907
367.
What is our life a play of passion
First Line:
What is our life a play of passion
Last Line:
Where we all die in earnest not in jest
DMI number:
4349
368.
What a constant round of pain
First Line:
What a constant round of pain
Last Line:
And prove his life was not a bubble
Author:
Mary Goddard (Speculation)
DMI number:
22369
369.
What a tedious day is past
First Line:
What a tedious day is past
Last Line:
We shall never complain of measure
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
16959
370.
What is the world to them
First Line:
What is the world to them
Last Line:
Their race is run and time to them is no more
DMI number:
34203
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