Death is the pledge of rest and with one bail
- DMI number:
- 15618
- First Line:
- Death is the pledge of rest and with one bail
- Last Line:
- Two prisons quits the body and the jail
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- Henry King
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'An Essay on Death and a Prison.' King (1664): 130-133.
- 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.90
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Bishop King
- Attributed To:
- Henry King
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