Though night her deepest sables spread

DMI number:

18044

First Line:

Though night her deepest sables spread

Last Line:

But guide a nobler world

Poem Genre / Form:

Quatrain abab

Themes:

Night, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Women / the female character

Content/Publication

Title:

Cupid’s metamorphoses or, Love in all Shapes. Being The Second and last Volume of the Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College, Cambridge. [ESTC T11213]

Page No(s):

p.125-126

Poem Title:

To Laura, who thought I mistook her for another in the Dark.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison