A lovely form so permanently fair
- DMI number:
- 23446
- First Line:
- A lovely form so permanently fair
- Last Line:
- By soft degrees decayed into a saint
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Beauty and Death
- Author:
- Sneyd Davies
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry states: 'Davies never collected his poems. [...] Some appeared, initialled S. D., in collections (1732 and 1745) by his school and college friend John Whaley. [...] More poems appeared in 1780–81 in [...] Nichols's Collection (vols. 6 and 7)'.
- Title:
- A collection of original poems and translations [ESTC T101302]
- Page No(s):
- p.256
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Mrs. M.H.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 6] [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- On The Death of Mrs. M. H.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Davies.
- Attributed To:
- Sneyd Davies
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