I'm told how bodies change their state
- DMI number:
- 42591
- First Line:
- I'm told how bodies change their state
- Last Line:
- Nay any thing that belongs to you
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence and Superstition[migration of souls.]
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Francis Willis
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Michael Hilton, 'The Anacreontea in England to 1683', 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, 1980) II: 43.
- First Line:
- I'm told how bodies change their state
- Last Line:
- Nay any thing belongs to you
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek [ESTC R7394]
- Page No(s):
- pp.39-41
- Poem Title:
- XVIII. The Wish to his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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