Sing muse the conscious torch whose nightly flame
- DMI number:
- 7027
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Sing muse the conscious torch whose nightly flame
- Last Line:
- And equal fates their equal passion proved
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Narrative verse, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Love and Mythology[Hero and Leander]
- Author:
- Laurence Eusden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Gillespie and Hopkins (2008) VI: xii. See also The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1969-77) II: 547.
- Translated from:
- Musaeus
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- As in a starry night the lonely swain
- Last Line:
- Since by new wonders heaven confirms the glorious choice
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- From things considered with a stricter view
- Last Line:
- The blossom's withered and our hopes are fled
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Long have we safe time's envious fury scorned
- Last Line:
- Thy acts confess the god thy learning proved
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 4] [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.234-249
- Poem Title:
- Hero And Leander. From The Greek.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Eusden.
- Attributed To:
- Laurence Eusden
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Page No(s):
- pp.594-619
- Poem Title:
- Hero and Leander: A Poem. Translated from the Greek.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand. [i.e. Eusden]
- Attributed To:
- Laurence Eusden
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.198-209
- Poem Title:
- Hero and Leander: A Poem, Translated from the Greek.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand. [i.e. Eusden]
- Attributed To:
- Laurence Eusden
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Page No(s):
- pp.266-278
- Poem Title:
- Hero and Leander: A Poem, Translated from the Greek.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand. [i.e. Eusden]
- Attributed To:
- Laurence Eusden
Poem Aliases
Musaeus. Hero and Leander.
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