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
- Author:
- William Congreve
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Quotation from Congreve's translation (in the 1709 Tonson edition) of Ovid's Ars Amatoria, book III.
- 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
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