How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
- DMI number:
- 6620
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
- Last Line:
- To weaken it and make his wishes good
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Narrative verse, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Mythology and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Joseph Addison
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) IX: 560-561.
- Translated from:
- Ovid
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
- Last Line:
- And tinged its source to make his wishes good
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- He sought fresh mountains in a foreign soil
- Last Line:
- The pleasure lessened the attending toil
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The annual miscellany for the year 1694, being the fourth part of miscellany poems [N34956]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-119
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Salmacis: From the Fourth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Jo. Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- Title:
- The annual miscellany: for the year 1694 [ESTC R22916]
- Page No(s):
- pp.139-147
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Salmacis: From the Fourth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Jo. Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
Poem Aliases
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book 4.
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