Is this dear maid the price of all my pains

DMI number:

18069

First Line:

Is this dear maid the price of all my pains

Last Line:

The lover scorned but crowned the poet's brow

Poem Genre / Form:

Quatrain aabb

Themes:

Grief / sadness / melancholy, Objects[cap], and Sex / relations between the sexes

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.154

Poem Title:

To a Lady, Who, in return for a Copy of Verses, sent me a flower'd Cap.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison