When Phoebus first did Daphne love
- DMI number:
- 11227
- First Line:
- When Phoebus first did Daphne love
- Last Line:
- To be a tree if she could choose
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Carpe diem, Mythology[Phoebus and Daphne], and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Dowland
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- LION. This is a version, with some variants and an extra verse, of 'When Phoebus first did Daphne loue' in Dowland's Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires. (London, 1603)
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions: viz Waller's anniversary on the government of the Lord Protector, anno 1655; A pastoral courtship [T65281]
- Page No(s):
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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