If life should a well-ordered poem be
- DMI number:
- 7511
- First Line:
- If life should a well-ordered poem be
- Last Line:
- To kites and meaner birds he leaves the mangled prey
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Ode
- Themes:
- Liberty and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Waller (1906): 417. Extract from Cowley's Ode. Upon Liberty.
- First Line:
- Freedom with virtue takes her seat
- Last Line:
- To kites and meaner birds he leaves the mangled prey
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [Feb 1711]
- Page No(s):
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Liberty, a Pindarick Ode.
- Attribution:
- Mr Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
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