Let neither awe of father's frowns nor shame

DMI number:

9448

Poem Aliases

Ovid. Metamorposes. Book IX. Lines 556-7.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Let neither awe of father's frowns nor shame

Last Line:

Frighten or stop us in the way to bliss

Poem Genre / Form:

Fragment and Quatrain aaab

Themes:

The happy man / contentment

Related People

Author:

John Oldham

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from 'The Passion of Byblis'. Oldham (1684) I: 119-138.

Translated from:

Ovid

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

Title:

Familiar letters of love, gallantry, and several other occasions by the wits of the last and present age [vol I] [T64784]

Page No(s):

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Oldham has rendered it thus:

Attributed To:

John Oldham