In vain poor nymph to win our youthful hearts

DMI number:

18124

First Line:

In vain poor nymph to win our youthful hearts

Last Line:

For then but not till then we can admire

Poem Genre / Form:

Address and Couplet

Themes:

Age, Art / painting, and Beauty

Content/Publication

Title:

Cupid’s metamorphoses or, Love in all Shapes. Being The Second and last Volume of the Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College, Cambridge. [ESTC T11213]

Page No(s):

p.220

Poem Title:

To an old Lady who painted.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison