Why so coy my lovely maid
- DMI number:
- 6978
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Why so coy my lovely maid
- Last Line:
- Me the lily you the rose
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lyric, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Age and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Ambrose Philips
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Segar (1937): 159.
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Then never let me see her more
- Last Line:
- At once my self and Amoret
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Why we love and why we hate
- Last Line:
- Seek the riddle in the skies
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Attend my soul the early birds inspire
- Last Line:
- Shakes off his sleep but shakes not off his sin
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Inhuman Sacharissa not to love
- Last Line:
- For Waller's muse has Sacharissa's scorn
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The hermit's solace in his cell
- Last Line:
- The mad man's sport the wise man's pain
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- This posture and these tears that heaven might move
- Last Line:
- The plaintive waters utter as they flow
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When gamesome youth and love's unruly fire
- Last Line:
- As infants sleep upon their mother's breast
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Page No(s):
- pp.282-283
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon, Ode 34.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- p.74
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon, Ode XXXIV.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Page No(s):
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon, Ode XXXIV.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Anacreon. Ode 34.
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