A tower of brass one would have said
- DMI number:
- 932
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- A tower of brass one would have said
- Last Line:
- With sparing hand but just enough has given
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Ode
- Themes:
- Love, Mythology, Parents and children, Sex / relations between the sexes, and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Essays, ed. Waller (1906): 441-2.
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- The odes and satires of Horace [T42017]
- Page No(s):
- pp.106-108
- Poem Title:
- Ode XVI. Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [Dublin] [T42022]
- Page No(s):
- pp.113-115
- Poem Title:
- Ode XVI....Printed in Mr. Cowley's Poems in Octavo, Page 759.
- Attribution:
- Paraphrased by Mr. Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [T42018]
- Page No(s):
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- Ode XVI...Printed in Mr. Cowley's Poems in Octavo, Page 759.
- Attribution:
- Paraphrased by Mr. Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [T42019]
- Page No(s):
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- Ode XVI....Printed in Mr. Cowley's Poems in Octavo, Page 759.
- Attribution:
- Paraphras'd by Mr. Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [T42020]
- Page No(s):
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- Ode XVI....Printed in Mr. Cowley's Poems in Octavo, Page 759.
- Attribution:
- Paraphrased by Mr. Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [T42021]
- Page No(s):
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- Ode XVI....Printed in Mr. Cowley's Poems, in Octavo, Pag. 759.
- Attribution:
- Paraphras'd by Mr. Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
Poem Aliases
Horace. Odes. Book 3 Ode 16.
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