by Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
Our life is nothing but a winter's day
Language: English
Our life is nothing but a winter's day: Some only break their fast, and so away: Others stay dinner and depart full-fed: The deepest age but sups and goes to bed: He's most in debt that lingers out the day: Who dies betimes has less and less to pay.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Handy-book of Literary Curiosities, by William Shepard Walsh, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893, p. 550.
Text Authorship:
- by Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644), no title, appears in Divine Fancies: digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations, first published 1633 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994), "Our life is nothing but a winter's day", 1975 [chorus], from Two Epitaphs, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2012-02-13
Line count: 6
Word count: 49