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Your house of hair and lady's hand

DMI number:
6165
First Line:
Your house of hair and lady's hand
Last Line:
What fits it better than a fan
Poem Genre / Form:
Riddle and Couplet
Themes:
Objects[Fan]
Related People
Author:
Thomas Sheridan
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Authorship discussed by Harold Williams in his 1937 ed. of Swift (used in LION); Williams insists that though Sheridan is occasionally presented as the author of this poem, it is not by him.
Content/Publication
Title:
The muses mercury [P2007] [May 1707]
Page No(s):
pp.116-117
Poem Title:
The Aenigma in the last Mercury explain'd.
Attribution:
By Mr. S. W.
Attributed To:
Not attributed