Yes beauty with a bloodless conquest finds
- DMI number:
- 5499
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Yes beauty with a bloodless conquest finds
- Last Line:
- And when they weep in pearls dissolved he dies
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Beauty
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- lines 1-2 from Upon his Majesty's repairing of St. Paul's ('That shipwrecked vessel which the apostle bore'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 37-38.
- Author:
- Nathaniel Lee
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Composite extract from Act 2 Scene 3 and Act 1 Scene 1 of 'The Tragedy of Nero'. Lee (1694): 2nd pagination, lines 6-7, 10-16.
- First Line:
- Beauty with a bloodless conquest finds
- Last Line:
- A welcome sovereignty in rudest minds
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Lee. Nero. Act 2.
Lee. Nero. Act 1.
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