I'll tell you how the rose did first grow red
- DMI number:
- 11216
- First Line:
- I'll tell you how the rose did first grow red
- Last Line:
- They flourish only in your livery
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lyric and Octet aabbccdd
- Themes:
- Beauty and Nature
- Author:
- William Strode
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- LION.
- First Line:
- I'll tell you how the rose at first grew red
- Last Line:
- And triumph only in your livery
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions: viz Waller's anniversary on the government of the Lord Protector, anno 1655; A pastoral courtship [T65281]
- Page No(s):
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- A Lover To His Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, also those of the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinghamshire [T95243]
- Page No(s):
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- To his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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