Now night with sable wings the world overspread
- DMI number:
- 3956
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Now night with sable wings the world overspread
- Last Line:
- Of full desire and sunk to pleasing rest
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Epic, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Mythology and War
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Calif. I (1956): 42-3.
- Translated from:
- Virgil
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.48-51
- Poem Title:
- The Speech Of Venus To Vulcan: Wherein she perswades him to make Arms for her Son Aeneas, then engag'd in a War against the Latines, and King Turnus: Translated out of the Eighth Book of Virgils Aeneids.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]
- Page No(s):
- pp.48-51
- Poem Title:
- The Speech Of Venus To Vulcan: Wherein she perswades him to make Arms for her Son Aeneas, then engag'd in a War against the Latines, and King Turnus: Translated out of the Eighth Book of Virgils Aeneids.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R31379]
- Page No(s):
- pp.48-51
- Poem Title:
- The Speech Of Venus To Vulcan: Wherein she perswades him to make Arms for her Son Aeneas, then engag'd in a War against the Latines, and King Turnus: Translated out of the Eighth Book of Virgil's Aeneids.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R41930]
- Page No(s):
- pp.48-51
- Poem Title:
- The Speech Of Venus To Vulcan: Wherein she perswades him to make Arms for her Son Aeneas, then engag'd in a War against the Latines, and King Turnus: Translated out of the Eighth Book of Virgil's Aeneids.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Page No(s):
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- The Speech of Venus to Vulcan
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- The Speech of Venus to Vulcan.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Virgil. Aeneid. Book 8.
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