Ask not the cause why sudden spring
- DMI number:
- 17966
- First Line:
- Ask not the cause why sudden spring
- Last Line:
- To be the victim for mankind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Sesta rima / ababcc and Song
- Themes:
- Nature and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Calif. IV (1974): 421-2. [usually Ask not the cause why sullen spring'?
- First Line:
- Ask not the cause why sullen spring
- Last Line:
- I only am by love designed
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Ask not the cause why sullen spring
- Last Line:
- To be the victim for mankind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.279-280
- Poem Title:
- Song, to a Fair Young Lady, going out of the Town in the Spring.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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