When young I was as poor as Job
- DMI number:
- 21505
- First Line:
- When young I was as poor as Job
- Last Line:
- I'm impotently poor
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Quatrain abcb
- Themes:
- Money / wealth and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- George Buchanan
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
- Page No(s):
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- [Epigram. Buchanani ('Pauper eram Juvenis, Senio confectus inerti')] Imitated.
- Attribution:
- 'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
- Attributed To:
- John Winstanley
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