Ask not the cause why sullen spring
- DMI number:
- 657
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Ask not the cause why sullen spring
- Last Line:
- I only am by love designed
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes and Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Calif. IV (1974): 421-2.
- First Line:
- Ask not the cause why sullen spring
- Last Line:
- To be the victim for mankind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Ask not the cause why sudden spring
- Last Line:
- To be the victim for mankind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Musical Miscellany [v.3] [not Suarez?] [T118842] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.198-200
- Poem Title:
- Charming Cloris
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Song to a Fair Young Lady, going out of Town in the Spring
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