Vain painter why would'st thou attempt to draw
- DMI number:
- 19267
- First Line:
- Vain painter why would'st thou attempt to draw
- Last Line:
- And if you paint her you must paint a sound
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Advice to a Painter poems, and Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Art / painting and Mythology[Echo]
- Translated from:
- Ausonius
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Translated from the Latin of Ausonius', T90956
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
- Page No(s):
- p.18-19
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. To a Painter, who undertook to paint Echo. Translated from the Latin of Ausonius.
- Attribution:
- 'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
- Attributed To:
- John Winstanley
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