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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 39. WON BY SUBTILTY, by PHILIP AYRES Poet's Biography
First Line: Life and a dearer mistress is the prize
Last Line: And a gold pippin wins a maidenhead.
Subject(s): Atalanta; Courtship; Hippomenes (mythology); Racing
First Line: Life and a dearer mistress is the prize
Last Line: And a gold pippin wins a maidenhead.
Subject(s): Atalanta; Courtship; Hippomenes (mythology); Racing
LIFE and a dearer mistress is the prize,
For the swift fair had run great numbers dead.
Hippomenes ventures, bribes her covetous eyes,
And a gold pippin wins a maidenhead.
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