Fragrant is the rose but it fades in time
- DMI number:
- 34620
- First Line:
- Fragrant is the rose but it fades in time
- Last Line:
- Which time or sickness speedily destroys
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work, Epitaph, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variations from Dryden's The Despairing Lover ('With inauspicious love, a wretched swain'). Calif. III (1969): 71 [Theocritus 23]
- Title:
- A new select collection of epitaphs [vol I] [T136904] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.258
- Poem Title:
- On John Dixon, Aet. 4.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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