Now Bacchus calls me to his jolly rites
- DMI number:
- 4151
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Now Bacchus calls me to his jolly rites
- Last Line:
- The bridegroom's liquor lays the bride asleep
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Narrative verse, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Food and drink[Wine], Mythology, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The first book of Ovid's Art of Love'; Calif. II (1972): 497-98.
- Translated from:
- Ovid
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Page No(s):
- pp.34-36
- Poem Title:
- The Meeting of Bacchus with Ariadne. Out of Ovid.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Ovid. Art of Love. Book 1.
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