Prettiest of birds my Lesbia's favourite
- DMI number:
- 39219
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Prettiest of birds my Lesbia's favourite
- Last Line:
- And drew the virgin to her nuptial bed
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Address, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Animals, Love, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- Catullus
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Henry Crispe
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Attributed to Crisp in Giles Jacob, Poetical Register (1719, ESTC T137459) II: 292.
- Title:
- The adventures of Catullus and history of his amours with Lesbia [T130888]
- Page No(s):
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- To Lesbias Sparrow [see contents table]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellany, being a collection of poems by several hands [ESTC R3358] [EEBO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.280-281
- Poem Title:
- Lesbia's Sparrow Out Of Catullus
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hen. Crisp, Fellow of Kings-College, Cambridge
- Attributed To:
- Henry Crispe
Poem Aliases
Catullus. Carmen 2.
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