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Woman is soft and of a tender heart

DMI number:
40411
First Line:
Woman is soft and of a tender heart
Last Line:
It wounds him not so deep nor hits so sure
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Quatrain aabb
Themes:
Sex / relations between the sexes and Women / the female character
Related People
Author:
William Congreve
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Quotation from Congreve's translation (in the 1709 Tonson edition) of Ovid's Ars Amatoria, book III.
Content/Publication
Title:
The Unhappy Lovers: Or, the History of James Welston, Gent [T70402]
Page No(s):
p.5
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed