Give me Homer's tuneful lyre
- DMI number:
- 39261
- First Line:
- Give me Homer's tuneful lyre
- Last Line:
- Defiance to sobriety
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Food and drink and Entertainments / pastimes
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Francis Willis
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Michael Hilton, 'The Anacreontea in England to 1683', 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, 1980) II: 44.
- First Line:
- Give me Homer's tuneful lyre
- Last Line:
- Rapturous songs that breathe of wine
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek [ESTC R7394]
- Page No(s):
- pp.99-100
- Poem Title:
- XLV. The Drunkard's delight.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The works of Anacreon and Sappho [T85628] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- XLV. The Drunkard's Delight.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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