Why thus with scornful look you fly
- DMI number:
- 27356
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Why thus with scornful look you fly
- Last Line:
- You want some youth to mount and ride
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Ode
- Themes:
- Beauty and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Francis Fawkes
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) XX: 263.
- Title:
- The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Museaeus [T85626]
- Page No(s):
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- The Odes of Anacreon...Ode LIX. To A Scornful Beauty.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentleman of Cambridge.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Museaeus [N25547]
- Page No(s):
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- The Odes of Anacreon...Ode LIX. To A Scornful Beauty.
- Attribution:
- Francis Fawkes (title-page).
- Attributed To:
- Francis Fawkes
- Title:
- The works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Museaeus [T85627] [2nd ed]
- Page No(s):
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- The Odes of Anacreon..Ode LIX. To A Scornful Beauty.
- Attribution:
- Francis Fawkes (title-page).
- Attributed To:
- Francis Fawkes
Poem Aliases
Anacreon. Ode 59.
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