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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
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Author:
Abraham Cowley
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Cowley's 'Life and Fame' ('Oh life, thou nothing's younger brother'), Waller (1905): 201.
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Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
Last Line:
We call one step a race
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Content/Publication
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]
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