Vain are our fondest hopes of bliss
- DMI number:
- 34801
- First Line:
- Vain are our fondest hopes of bliss
- Last Line:
- Unmixed felicity shall find
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work, Epitaph, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- Matthew Pilkington
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Happiness'. Poems on Several Occasions (1731, ESTC T134719): 140-143.
- Title:
- A new select collection of epitaphs [vol I] [T136904] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.308
- Poem Title:
- On Joel Piercy, Aet. 73.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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