O happy if he knew his happy state
- DMI number:
- 28297
- First Line:
- O happy if he knew his happy state
- Last Line:
- To lands that lie beneath another sun
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Panegyric, and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Retirement, Rural life, and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dryden's translation of Georgics II. Calif. V (1988): 202-7.
- Translated from:
- Virgil
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O happy if he knew his happy state
- Last Line:
- Tis time to set at ease the smoking horse
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Oh happy if he knew his happy state
- Last Line:
- With roots and herbs and gave the golden age
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- p.[114]
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- 'the prince of poets', [p.114]] Dryden's translation [p.118]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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