Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire

DMI number:

25551

Poem Aliases

Horace. Odes. Book 1 Ode 11.

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Absolute (100%)

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First Line:

Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire

Last Line:

And taste not expect what hereafter will bestow

Poem Genre / Form:

Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Couplet

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts

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Translated from:

Horace

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Author:

John Hervey

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

c.f. Overton. Suarez (1997) VI: 395.

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Content/Publication

Title:

A select collection of modern poems from the best authors [T194009] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.58

Poem Title:

An imitation of the eleventh Ode of the First Book of Horace.

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