Why dost thou heap up wealth which thou must quit
- DMI number:
- 28166
- First Line:
- Why dost thou heap up wealth which thou must quit
- Last Line:
- How vain were such an industry
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work, Quatrain aabb, and Ode
- Themes:
- Money / wealth
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Waller (1906): 450.
- Title:
- The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.203-204
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowley. [p.204]
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
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