With inauspicious love a wretched swain
- DMI number:
- 3827
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- With inauspicious love a wretched swain
- Last Line:
- Thus warned be wise and love for love return
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Pastoral, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy and Love
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Calif. III (1969): 69-72.
- Translated from:
- Theocritus
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The rose is fragrant but it fades in time
- Last Line:
- And whiter snow in minutes melts away
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of the best english poetry by several hands [vol I] [T71]
- Page No(s):
- pp.11-14
- Poem Title:
- The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Daphnis: or a pastoral elegy upon the unfortunate death of Mr. Thomas Creech, with a poem on the despairing lover and the despairing shepherd [T32078]
- Page No(s):
- pp.11-14
- Poem Title:
- The Despairing Lover
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.107-113
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]
- Page No(s):
- pp.107-113
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- Page No(s):
- pp.63-67
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R31379]
- Page No(s):
- pp.107-113
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R41930]
- Page No(s):
- pp.107-113
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [N6906]
- Page No(s):
- pp.307-310
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium XXIII. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.298-301
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium XXIII. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Theocritus. Idyll 23.
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