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Here easy quiet a secure retreat

DMI number:
37084
First Line:
Here easy quiet a secure retreat
Last Line:
And after toilsome days a short repose at night
Poem Genre / Form:
Georgic, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
Themes:
Nature, Retirement, and Rural life
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
From Dryden's translation of Virgil's 'Georgics', 2. Calif. V (1988): 202 [‘But easie Quiet, a secure retreat’]
Content/Publication
Title:
Exercises for improvement in elocution [T126614] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.17
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden