Oft by the covert of night's shade
- DMI number:
- 27799
- First Line:
- Oft by the covert of night's shade
- Last Line:
- Hung out the faithful torch to guide him to her bower
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Love, Mythology[Hero and Leander], and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Charles Parrott
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION: extract from Ode to Night.
- First Line:
- The busy cares of day are done
- Last Line:
- Nor change thy festive hours for sunshine and the day
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Museaeus [N25547]
- Page No(s):
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- The Loves of Hero and Leander. Translated from the Greek of Musaeus...Dodsley's Miscell. Vol. 4. P. 308.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Museaeus [T85626]
- Page No(s):
- p.294
- Poem Title:
- The Loves of Hero and Leander. Translated from the Greek of Musaeus...Dodsley's Miscell. Vol. 4. P. 308.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Museaeus [T85627] [2nd ed]
- Page No(s):
- p.294
- Poem Title:
- The Loves of Hero and Leander. Translated from the Greek of Musaeus...Dodsley's Miscell. Vol. 4. P. 308.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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