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See yonder gaudy tulip rise

DMI number:
32331
First Line:
See yonder gaudy tulip rise
Last Line:
Nor boast your power to please the eye
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet and Fable
Themes:
Beauty, Nature[flowers tulip violet], and Women / the female character
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Author:
Anne Steele
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
ODNB: Anne Steele, English hymn-writer, published Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional (1760) under the pseudonym 'Theodosia' - doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26343. The poem in question is not however in this collection.
Content/Publication
Title:
A Collection of Poems, From the Best Authors: Adapted to every age, but peculiarly designed to form the Taste of Youth. [T78176] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.24-25
Poem Title:
XII. The Tulip and the Violet.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
Miscellaneous poems. On religious, moral, and entertaining subjects: collected from the best English authors. [N4203] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.142-143
Poem Title:
The Tulip and Violet.
Attribution:
From Theodosia's Poems.
Attributed To:
Not attributed