No longer seek the needless aid
- DMI number:
- 32188
- First Line:
- No longer seek the needless aid
- Last Line:
- To wave around her neck and wanton in the wind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Beauty and Women / the female character
- Translated from:
- Robert Lowth
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- William Duncombe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Forster (1980): 49.
- First Line:
- No longer seek the needless aid
- Last Line:
- To play about her neck and wanton in the wind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- No longer seek the needless aid
- Last Line:
- To wave and wanton in the balmy wind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. XII. For December. [T146608]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35, 37
- Poem Title:
- The Same Translated. [i.e. Ad Ornatissimam Puellam.]
- Attribution:
- By William Duncombe, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- William DuncombeRobert Lowth
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