Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
- DMI number:
- 5572
- First Line:
- Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
- Last Line:
- But broken and overwhelmed the endless ocean meets again
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Ode
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cowley's 'Life and Fame' ('Oh life, thou nothing's younger brother'), Waller (1905): 201.
- First Line:
- Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
- Last Line:
- For all old Homer's life ever since he died till now
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
- Last Line:
- We call one step a race
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- 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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