No crafty widows shall approach my bed
- DMI number:
- 1385
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- No crafty widows shall approach my bed
- Last Line:
- We form like wax and mould them as we please
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract from January and May. Twickenham edition II.
- Title:
- The Altar of Love [12 Theta 1321]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- On Widows.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Altar of Love: [Harding C 105] [N16438]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- On Widows.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The altar of love. Consisting of poems and other miscellanies [ESTC N16485]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- On Widows.
- Attribution:
- Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. January and May.
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