When as the sun flings down his richest rays
- DMI number:
- 6880
- First Line:
- When as the sun flings down his richest rays
- Last Line:
- And all the rest are shadows unto me
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Friendship
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- From 'Still to one end we both so justly drew' to 'Till nature's self scarce looked on us as two' T145151 (p. 108): extract with alterations, from Cowley's Davideis, Book I; Waller (1905): 286.
- Author:
- James Day
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- From 'When as the sun flings down his richest rays' to 'And thou (poor sunless thou) art left alone' T145151 (p. 101); from 'Yet here's my comfort lord if I can see' to 'My self, grant me more with than Aesop's dog' T145151 (p. 102): extracts, with alterations, from James Day's A Meditation on a Mans shadow ('When as the Sunne flings downe his richest rayes') LION.
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- From 'Fixed to his friend, inviolably true' to 'Though bodies cannot, souls can penetrate' T145151 (p. 106): extracts from Dryden's Eleonora, a panegyrical poem dedicated to the memory of the late countess of Abingdon. Calif. III (1969): 242.
- Author:
- John Dunton
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Is Dunton responsible for combining and reworking the fragments?
- Author:
- Nahum Tate
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- 'My esteem for thee / Was equal to thy worth and love for me' T145151 (p. 107): extract from Tate's In memory of the Author ('Take this short-summon'd loose unfinisht Verse'). The Works of Mr. John Oldham, together with his remains (1684, ESTC R199).
- Author:
- Robert Gould
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- From 'Then only proud when he could serve a friend' to 'But his concern was always for your good' (pp. 105-106). Extract w. variants from 'The Mourning Swain, a Funeral Eclogue on the much lamented Death of the Right Honourable James Earl of Abingdon'. Gould (1709) I: 375-391. Query: attribution?
- Author:
- Thomas D'Urfey
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- From 'Then view the chances of inconstant fate' to 'And the vices of your body damn your soul' T145151 (p. 105). Extract w. variants from 'The Progress of Honesty' (1681, ESTC R3727).
- Title:
- Athenianism: or the new projects of Mr. John Dunton [T145151]
- Page No(s):
- pp.101-110
- Poem Title:
- Dunton's Shadow: Or the Character of a Summer Friend
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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