Not sleep beneath the shade in flowery fields
- DMI number:
- 3808
- First Line:
- Not sleep beneath the shade in flowery fields
- Last Line:
- Live until all things crumble into dust
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Sir John Cotton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008). I: cxvii.
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- To The Memory OF Mr. Waller.
- Attribution:
- By Sir John Cotton, Bart.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Cotton
- Title:
- Poems to the memory of that incomparable poet Edmond Waller esquire. By several hands. [ESTC R17154]
- Page No(s):
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of my Noble Friend, Mr. Waller
- Attribution:
- Sir John Cotton
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Cotton
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [N6906]
- Page No(s):
- pp.228-229
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of my Noble Friend, Mr. Waller.
- Attribution:
- By Sir John Cotton
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Cotton
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of my Noble Friend, Mr. Waller.
- Attribution:
- By Sir John Cotton, Bar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Cotton
Related People
Content/Publication