Over all men hangs a double fate
- DMI number:
- 15006
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Over all men hangs a double fate
- Last Line:
- Maintained like nature by an ebb and flow
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Joyfulness / happiness
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry: ‘The Indian Queen, written jointly with [Sir Robert] Howard’.
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Indian Queen' Act 2 Scene 1. Howard (1692).
- First Line:
- For over all men hangs a double fate
- Last Line:
- Maintained like nature by an ebb and flow
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir Robert Howard's Indian Queen
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
Poem Aliases
Indian Queen.
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