Gentle river gentle river
- DMI number:
- 36922
- First Line:
- Gentle river gentle river
- Last Line:
- And without a groan expired
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Narrative verse, and Quatrain abcb
- Themes:
- Fighting / conflict, Nature, Other countries, Religion, and War
- Composer:
- Samuel Johnson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Gentle River, Gentle River' is 'translated from the Spanish, 'Rio Verde', by Percy (and also [Samuel] Johnson)' - Nick Groom, The Making of Percys Reliques (Oxford: OUP, 1999), p. 49.
- Composer:
- Thomas Percy
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Gentle River, Gentle River' is 'translated from the Spanish, 'Rio Verde', by Percy (and also [Samuel] Johnson)' - Nick Groom, The Making of Percys Reliques (Oxford: OUP, 1999), p. 49.
- Title:
- Modern poems: selected chiefly from miscellanies published lately. [T54021] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.1-3
- Poem Title:
- I. Gentle River, Gentle River. Translated from the Spanish. First published by Mr. Percy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [2nd ed] [Vol 1] [T83735] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.337-341 (odd pages)
- Poem Title:
- XVII. Gentle River, Gentle River ['Rio verde, rio verde']. Translated from the Spanish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [3rd ed] [Vol 1] [T82693] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.339-343 (odd pages)
- Poem Title:
- XVII. Gentle River, Gentle River ['Rio verde, rio verde']. Translated from the Spanish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [4th ed] [Vol 1] [T81998] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.355-359 (odd pages)
- Poem Title:
- XVI. Gentle River, Gentle River ['Rio verde, rio verde']. Translated from the Spanish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [Dublin] [Vol 1] [T83734] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.269-273 (odd pages)
- Poem Title:
- XIX. Gentle River, Gentle River ['Rio verde, rio verde']. Translated from the Spanish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [London and Frankfurt] [Vol 1] [T84265] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.287-291 (odd pages)
- Poem Title:
- XIX. Gentle River, Gentle River ['Rio verde, rio verde']. Translated from the Spanish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [Vol 1] [T84936] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.319-323 (odd pages)
- Poem Title:
- XIX. Gentle River, Gentle River ['Rio verde, rio verde']. Translated from the Spanish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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