Over all when night had silence spread
- DMI number:
- 42559
- First Line:
- Over all when night had silence spread
- Last Line:
- That thou shalt scorch and burn with love
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Allegory, Anacreontic, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Love, Mythology[Cupid.], and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Wood
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Michael Hilton, 'The Anacreontea in England to 1683', 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, 1980) II: 44.
- Title:
- Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek [ESTC R7394]
- Page No(s):
- pp.4-8
- Poem Title:
- III. Cupid or the Cunning Beggar.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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