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
- 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]
- Title:
- Exercises for improvement in elocution [T126614] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Related People
Content/Publication