When gay Bacchus fills my breast
- DMI number:
- 31524
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- When gay Bacchus fills my breast
- Last Line:
- Laughing at the farce of state
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Ode
- Themes:
- Food and drink
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Francis Fawkes
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) XX: 350.
- First Line:
- When gay Bacchus fills my breast
- Last Line:
- Tis better to lie drunk than dead
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol 2] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- from Mr. Fawkes's excellent translation
- Attributed To:
- Francis Fawkes
Poem Aliases
Anacreon. Ode 26.
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