Whose life with care is overcast
- DMI number:
- 16120
- First Line:
- Whose life with care is overcast
- Last Line:
- But for to live that half seven well
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- Robert Herrick
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from A Paranæticall, or Advisive Verse, to his friend, M. John Wicks ('Is this a life to break thy sleep'). Herrick (1825) II: 201.
- 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.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Herrick
- Attributed To:
- Robert Herrick
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