Where now are all my flattering dreams of joy
- DMI number:
- 24449
- First Line:
- Where now are all my flattering dreams of joy
- Last Line:
- And bid the turf lie lightly on my breast
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Quatrain abab, and Elegy
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy, Love, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- Tibullus
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Tobias George Smollett
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) XV: 565. Gassman (1993): 47-48.
- First Line:
- Where now are all my flattering dreams of joy
- Last Line:
- And bid the turf lie light upon my breast
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Chester Miscellany [T166017]
- Page No(s):
- pp.285-286
- Poem Title:
- Despair. An Elegy, in Imitation of Tibullus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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