Since you with skill can touch the tender reed
- DMI number:
- 25922
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Since you with skill can touch the tender reed
- Last Line:
- But all his beauty all his prayers were vain
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dialogue, Pastoral, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fighting / conflict and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- James Beattie
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) XVIII: 565-566.
- Translated from:
- Virgil
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of original poems. By the Rev. Mr Blacklock and other Scotch gentlemen [T116769] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.157-163
- Poem Title:
- The Fifth Pastoral of Virgil, Attempted in English Verse ... Menalcas, Mopsus.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. J. B.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Virgil. Eclogue 5.
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