From the maternal tomb
- DMI number:
- 6007
- First Line:
- From the maternal tomb
- Last Line:
- Are but the empty dreams which in death's sleep we make
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Ode
- Themes:
- Death and Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cowley's 'Life' ('We're ill by these grammarians used'), Waller (1905): 209.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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