How still the sea behold how calm the sky
- DMI number:
- 6964
- First Line:
- How still the sea behold how calm the sky
- Last Line:
- And see the boys their flocks to shelter drive
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dialogue, Pastoral, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fighting / conflict, Love, Nature, Poetry / literature / writing, and The monarchy (heads of state)[Elizabeth I; Anne]
- Author:
- Ambrose Philips
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Segar (1937): 32-36, 71-76. Chalmers (1810) XIII: 115-116.
- First Line:
- As I to cool me bathed one sultry day
- Last Line:
- Yet often stopped and often turned her eye
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Breathe soft ye winds ye waters gently flow
- Last Line:
- My love in yonder vale in sleep does lie
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined
- Last Line:
- Condemn me shepherd if I did amiss
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined
- Last Line:
- Condemn me shepherds if I did amiss
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When Lucy decks with flowers her swelling breast
- Last Line:
- Condemn me shepherds if I did amiss
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of the best english poetry by several hands [vol II] [T71]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-24
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- Title:
- A supplement to the works of the most celebrated minor poets [T79269] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.63-67
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
- Attribution:
- By Ambrose Philips Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- Title:
- A Supplement To The Works Of The Most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 3] [2nd ed] [T185023] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.63-67
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Philips' name
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Page No(s):
- pp.40-48
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.19-23
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Philips.
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-24
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- Title:
- The works of Mr. John Philips [N25871]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-24
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 3] [N25943] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.63-67
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Philips' name
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
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