False women to new joys unseen can move
- DMI number:
- 5521
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- False women to new joys unseen can move
- Last Line:
- But that we most desire to keep has none
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Act 3 of Dryden's The Conquest of Granada. Calif. XI (1978): 47.
- First Line:
- Ah why are not the hearts of woman known
- Last Line:
- But that we most desire to keep has none
- 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.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Conquest of Granada.
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