The cloud capped towers
- DMI number:
- 25866
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The cloud capped towers
- Last Line:
- Leave not a wreck behind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Epitaph
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract fromThe Tempest Act 4 Scene 1.
- First Line:
- The cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces
- Last Line:
- Leave not a wreck behind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces
- Last Line:
- Is rounded with a sleep
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select Epitaphs [Vol. 1] [ESTC T137253]
- Page No(s):
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Shakespear. Extracted from his Play of the Tempest.
- Attribution:
- Shakespear.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. The Tempest.
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