Fortune came smiling to my youth and wooed it
- DMI number:
- 18945
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Fortune came smiling to my youth and wooed it
- Last Line:
- And lifts me to my banks
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from All for Love Act 1. Calif. XIII (1985): 33-4, 59 [composite]
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
All for Love or the World Well Lost.
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