It was the time when witty poets tell
- DMI number:
- 5568
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- It was the time when witty poets tell
- Last Line:
- And drew the modest curtains of the night
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Night
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cowley's 'The Country Mouse, a paraphrase upon Horace 2 Book Satyr 6' ('At the large foot of a fair hollow tree'), Waller (1906): 415.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- pp.228-229
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
Poem Aliases
Horace. Book 2 Satire 6.
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