The shaken tree grows faster at the root
- DMI number:
- 17051
- First Line:
- The shaken tree grows faster at the root
- Last Line:
- And love grows firmer for some blasts of doubt
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Distich
- Themes:
- Love
- Author:
- Francis Quarles
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of 'On Faith'. Quarles, Fancies (1633): 153.
- First Line:
- Th' oft shaken tree grows faster at the root
- Last Line:
- And faith's most firm that's sometimes urged with doubt
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The shaken tree grows faster at the root
- Last Line:
- And love grows firmer from some blasts of doubt
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- CCCIX.
- Poem Title:
- Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CCCIX.
- Poem Title:
- Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- XXVII. Jealousy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- Jealousy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- Jealousy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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