I sing the furious battles of the spheres
- DMI number:
- 42490
- First Line:
- I sing the furious battles of the spheres
- Last Line:
- Feathers lopped off spurs every where did lie
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Mock heroic and Quatrain abab
- Themes:
- Astronomy / astrology, Fighting / conflict, and Food and drink
- Author:
- James Smith
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Timothy Raylor, Cavaliers, Clubs, and Literary Culture: Sir John Mennes, James Smith, and the Order of the Fancy (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1994): 181.
- Title:
- Wit and drollery. Jovial poems. Corrected and amended, with new additions [ESTC R12497]
- Page No(s):
- pp.193-195
- Poem Title:
- Ad Johannuelem Leporem, Lepidissimum, Carmen Heroicum.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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