Life's taper thou presentest to me
- DMI number:
- 34381
- First Line:
- Life's taper thou presentest to me
- Last Line:
- But gain immortal life by death
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Parents and children
- Author:
- Nahum Tate
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Miscellanea sacra: or, Poems on divine & moral subjects (1698, ESTC R9864): [vii].
- Title:
- A new select collection of epitaphs [vol I] [T136904] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- On a Monument of Twin Infants; wherof the last born dy'd first; the Elder points to a lighted Taper, the Younger to a Death's Head. The Younger is supposed to speak,
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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