If ever grief could perfect form improve
- DMI number:
- 8464
- First Line:
- If ever grief could perfect form improve
- Last Line:
- And whom they melt to pity sooth to love
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Address
- Themes:
- Ancient history, Grief / sadness / melancholy, and Theatre
- Author:
- Laurence Eusden
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry: 'Eusden certainly contributed translations from Claudian in The Guardian (127 and 164) which were reprinted with ten other poems by him in Steele's Miscellanies (1714).'
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 4] [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.155-157
- Poem Title:
- To A Lady, Who Wept At Hearing Cato Read.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Eusden.
- Attributed To:
- Laurence Eusden
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [T133656]
- Page No(s):
- pp.235[i.e. 255]-258
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady, That wept at the hearing Cato read.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]
- Attributed To:
- Laurence Eusden
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [T75180]
- Page No(s):
- pp.255-258
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady, That wept at the hearing Cato read.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]
- Attributed To:
- Laurence Eusden
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies, consisting of original poems and translations [T75179]
- Page No(s):
- pp.199-202
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady, That wept at the hearing Cato read.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]
- Attributed To:
- Laurence Eusden
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