That health Leander to his Hero sends

DMI number:

18038

Poem Aliases

Ovid. Heroid XVIII.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

That health Leander to his Hero sends

Last Line:

And all my raging passions are on fire

Poem Genre / Form:

Fragment, Complaint, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet

Themes:

Grief / sadness / melancholy, Love, and Sex / relations between the sexes

Related People

Translated from:

Ovid

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

Title:

Cupid’s metamorphoses or, Love in all Shapes. Being The Second and last Volume of the Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College, Cambridge. [ESTC T11213]

Page No(s):

p.102-108

Poem Title:

Leander to Hero, Priestess of the Temple of Venus.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison