Aurora now had left her saffron bed
- DMI number:
- 28078
- First Line:
- Aurora now had left her saffron bed
- Last Line:
- The spouting blood came streaming on her hands
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Love, Mythology, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Anger
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Calif. V (1988): 478-481.
- Translated from:
- Virgil
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Aeneis, Book IV.
- Title:
- The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.96-99
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden's Transl. [p.99]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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