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My old acquaintance and my dearest friend

DMI number:
11846
Poem Aliases
Virgil. Eclogue 1.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
My old acquaintance and my dearest friend
Last Line:
Lie down on rushes with the sun get up
Poem Genre / Form:
Drama, Dialogue, Couplet, Pastoral, and Imitation (in the style of...)
Themes:
Agriculture, Gratitude, Grief / sadness / melancholy, and Rural life
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Author:
Morrough O'Connor
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Andrew Carpenter, Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Cork: Cork University Press, 1998), 83.
Translated from:
Virgil
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
Miscellaneous poems, original and translated, by several hands. [ESTC T125249]
Page No(s):
p.308-319
Poem Title:
A Pastoral, In Imitation of the First Eclogue of Virgil: Inscribed to the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars, of Trinity College, Dublin.
Attribution:
By Murroghoh O Connor of Aughanagraun
Attributed To:
Morrough O'Connor