Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine
- DMI number:
- 30521
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine
- Last Line:
- My footstool earth my canopy the skies
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Epistle
- Themes:
- Nature and Virtue / vice[pride]
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Man Epistle I. Twickenham edition III i.
- First Line:
- Awake my St John leave all meaner things
- Last Line:
- One truth is clear whatever is is right
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine
- Last Line:
- Alike in what it gives and what denies
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.88-89
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Thoughts Moral and Divine [N26098]
- Page No(s):
- p.199
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Thoughts Moral and Divine [T136739] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.335
- Poem Title:
- Pride.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Thoughts Moral and Divine [T136740] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.213
- Poem Title:
- Pride.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 1.
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