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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
Related People
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)'.
Content/Publication
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