To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema

"To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema" is a poem by the late American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Written in August 1917 "Lovecraft's Poetry" at the H. P. Lovecraft Archive, it was first published in The United Amateur in November 1919 "To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema" at Magyar H. P. Lovecraft Portál under the pseudonym L. Theobald, Jun "To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema" at The Project Gutenberg.
==Synopsis==
The quartet of four-line verses offer a barbed tribute to actress Sophia Simple, who Lovecraft appears to have thought possessed a magnificent charm, yet believed to be somewhat lacking in other departments.
==Publication History==
(Note: this list has been primarily compiled from the poem's entry in at Internet Speculative Fiction Database Title: "To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database)
*The United Amateur (1919)
*Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943)
*Collected Poems (1963)
*The World of H. P. Lovecraft 1971)
*Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems (1971)
*A Winter Wish and Other Poems (1977)
*The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft (2001, 2013)
==References==
Category:Lovecraft Circle Works
Category:H. P. Lovecraft works