You little know the heart which you advise
- DMI number:
- 19818
- First Line:
- You little know the heart which you advise
- Last Line:
- To one great being merciful and just
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- God, High society / the court, and Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- See Margaret Smith, Index of English Literary Manuscripts Vol. III, Part 2 (London and New York, 1989), p. 199. Halsband and Grundy: 258-9.
- First Line:
- You little know the heart that you advise
- Last Line:
- To one great being merciful and just
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- You little know the heart that you advise
- Last Line:
- To that sole being merciful and just
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Norfolk poetical miscellany [Vol 2] [ESTC T85536]
- Page No(s):
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- Sappho, to Delia. Who advis'd her not to spend so much Time in Publick Places.
- Attribution:
- Sappho
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The poetical miscellany, consisting of great variety of odes, epistles, pastorals, tales, fables, epigrams &c. [vol 2] [T85564] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- Sappho, to Delia. Who advis'd her not to spend so much Time in Publick Places.
- Attribution:
- Sappho
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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