Our pleasance heir is all vain glory
- DMI number:
- 10870
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- LION, ODNB.
- First Line:
- Our pleasance heir is all vain glory
- Last Line:
- Then sen our warks sall nevir die | Timor mortis non turbat me
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Dialect verse, Song with refrain, Quatrain aabb, and Lament
- Themes:
- Death, Grief / sadness / melancholy, Poetry / literature / writing, Scotland, and Visions
- Author:
- Allan Ramsay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author of 'Postscript' prophesying his own role in the preservation of Scots poetry. ODNB.
- Author:
- William Dunbar
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Bawcutt (1998) I: 94-97.
- Title:
- The Caledoniad. A Collection of Poems, written chiefly by Scottish Authors. [Vol 2] [T130687] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.102-108
- Poem Title:
- On the Uncertainty of LIfe and fear of Death, or a Lament for the Loss of the Poets.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. William Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- Title:
- The ever green being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol I] [ESTC T144558]
- Page No(s):
- p.129-136
- Poem Title:
- On the Uncertainty of Life and Fear of Death, or a Lament for the Loss of the Poets.
- Attribution:
- Quod Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- Title:
- The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol I] [ESTC T143032]
- Page No(s):
- p.129-136
- Poem Title:
- On the Uncertainty of Life and Fear of Death, or a Lament for the Loss of the Poets.
- Attribution:
- Quod Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
Poem Aliases
Lament for the Makaris.
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