Her letter comes at midnight and away
- DMI number:
- 41862
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Her letter comes at midnight and away
- Last Line:
- She'll bury me and then at least she'll shed a tear
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Couplet
- Themes:
- Danger, Night, Places[River Tiber], and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Henry Crispe
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Attributed to Crisp in Giles Jacob, Poetical Register (1719, ESTC T137459) II: 292.
- Translated from:
- Propertius
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany, being a collection of poems by several hands [ESTC R3358] [EEBO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.287-289
- Poem Title:
- Out Of Propertius, Book III. Elegy XIV. On His Imperious Mistris
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hen. Crisp, of Kings-College Cambridge
- Attributed To:
- Henry Crispe
Poem Aliases
Propertius. Elegies. Book 3 Elegy 14.
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