For many unsuccessful years
- DMI number:
- 6472
- First Line:
- For many unsuccessful years
- Last Line:
- Had foolishly denied
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lyric and Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...]
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears II: 795. 'Wrongly attributed to Prior'.
- Author:
- Thomas Yalden
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Probable variant of Advice to a lover. Chalmers (1810) XI: 85.
- First Line:
- For many unsuccessful years
- Last Line:
- What she for many years denied
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- For many unsuccessful years
- Last Line:
- That heart she had for years denied
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Oxford and Cambridge miscellany poems [T145730]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- Against Modesty in Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 4] [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- Against Modesty In Love.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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