It is as if a night should shade noon day
- DMI number:
- 13247
- First Line:
- It is as if a night should shade noon day
- Last Line:
- Where we must feel it dark for half a year
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'An Elegy' (Since you must go and I must bid farewell'). Bevington (2012) VII: 160-161.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ben. Johnson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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