Is then this hand to Phaon's eyes unknown

DMI number:

18032

Poem Aliases

Ovid. Heroid XV.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Is then this hand to Phaon's eyes unknown

Last Line:

And there forget to love or learn to die

Poem Genre / Form:

Complaint, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet

Themes:

Grief / sadness / melancholy and Love

Related People

Translated from:

Ovid

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

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.2-18

Poem Title:

Sapho to Phaon.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison