English poem
NUMBER VI. On LIFE and DEATH
by Charles Prentiss (1774–1820)
Life and the grave two different lessons give, Life shows us how to die, death how to live.
More by Charles Prentiss
- NUMBER III. On my old BOOTS
- NUMBER IV. On a certain writer, who was fond of maggotty Cheese, who frequently observed that nothing was lost
- NUMBER IX. On CHESTERFIELD
- NUMBER V. On MILTON and POPE
- NUMBER X. On PETER PINDAR
- NUMBER XII. ON THE QUESTION—WHAT IS BEAUTY. [The thoughts from Voltaire.]
- NUMBER XIII. On RUM DRINKING
- NUMBER XIV. On SHAKESPEARE