Alas how swift the crowding minutes pass
- DMI number:
- 3900
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Alas how swift the crowding minutes pass
- Last Line:
- Of glutton priests when they their solemn feasts profess
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Ode
- Themes:
- Age, Death, and Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- A pacquet from Parnassus [vol I. numb II] [T66974]
- Page No(s):
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- An ode, in imitation of Horace's 14th of the 2d book, beginning Eheu! Fugaces, Posthume, Postume, Labuntur Anni, &c.
- Attribution:
- By J. H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Horace. Odes. Book 2 Ode 14.
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