Before by death you never knowledge gain
- DMI number:
- 7036
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Before by death you never knowledge gain
- Last Line:
- And none when fear is past will supplicate
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Philosophic poetry and Quatrain abab
- Themes:
- Death, God, Philosophical enquiry, and Religion
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Vieth (1968): 224: noted but omitted.
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Works (1673): 326-34.
- First Line:
- Before by death you never knowledge gain
- Last Line:
- I should grow bold and give to all access
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Before by death you newer knowledge gain
- Last Line:
- And none when fear is past will supplicate
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The good in graves as heavenly seed are sown
- Last Line:
- A short dark passage to eternal light
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- We for their knowledge men inspired adore
- Last Line:
- Than that which he can make another know
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on moral and divine subjects by several celebrated English poets [T121853]
- Page No(s):
- pp.358-372
- Poem Title:
- The Philosopher's Disquisition Directed To The Dying Christian.
- Attribution:
- Davenant.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Page No(s):
- pp.285-298
- Poem Title:
- The Philosopher's Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian.
- Attribution:
- By Sir W. Davenant, Knight
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Philosopher's Disquisition.
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