No longer seek the needless aid
- DMI number:
- 36398
- First Line:
- No longer seek the needless aid
- Last Line:
- To play about her neck and wanton in the wind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Quatrain aabb, and Address
- Themes:
- Beauty
- Translated from:
- Robert Lowth
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- William Duncombe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Forster (1980): 49.
- First Line:
- No longer seek the needless aid
- Last Line:
- To wave and wanton in the balmy wind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- No longer seek the needless aid
- Last Line:
- To wave around her neck and wanton in the wind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 6] [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- To A Young Lady, Curling Her Hair. From The Latin Of Dr. Lowth, Now Bishop Of London.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W. Duncombe. Corrected By Bishop Lowth.
- Attributed To:
- William DuncombeRobert Lowth
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