Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat
- DMI number:
- 3417
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat
- Last Line:
- And whilst they live their flames can never die
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Pastoral, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Retirement, Rural life, Sex / relations between the sexes, Love, and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Giovanni Battista Guarini
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Niemayer (1939): 623-4. Chalmers (1810) VIII: 268.
- First Line:
- Dear happy groves and you the dark retreat
- Last Line:
- And while they live their flames can never die
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- How happy is the harmless country maid
- Last Line:
- And whilst they live their flames can never die
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The works of the Right Honourable the Earls of Rochester, and Roscommon... The Third Edition (1709) [N36008]
- Page No(s):
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- The Grove
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems by several hands. [ESTC R38820]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 58-60
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T116471]
- Page No(s):
- pp.52-54
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Roscommon]
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T116963]
- Page No(s):
- pp.55-57
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Roscommon]
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T124630]
- Page No(s):
- pp.52-54
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Roscommon]
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- Poems by several hands on several occasions [R22319]
- Page No(s):
- pp.3-5
- Poem Title:
- The Grove
- Attribution:
- Earl of Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- Poems by the Earl of Roscomon. To which is added, An essay on poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr. Richard Duke. [T132427]
- Page No(s):
- pp.120-122
- Poem Title:
- The foregoing Scene Translated into English.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- Page No(s):
- pp.293-295
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol II] [T95468]
- Page No(s):
- pp.29-31
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Page No(s):
- pp.344[8]-349
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.343-344
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The virgin muse [T118389]
- Page No(s):
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The virgin muse [T124513]
- Page No(s):
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The virgin muse [T124652]
- Page No(s):
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of celebrated authors of whose writings there are but small remains [vol I] [T145013] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.41-42[i.e. 43]
- Poem Title:
- Part of the Fifth Scene of the Second Act in Guarini Pastor Fido...Translated into English.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol II] [T94657]
- Page No(s):
- p.3
- Poem Title:
- The Wish.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T152378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- The Wish.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T95241]
- Page No(s):
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- The Wish.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [2nd ed] [T185023] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Part of the Fifth Scene of the Second Act in Guarini's Pastor Fido, Translated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [N25943] [ECCO] (1751)
- Page No(s):
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Part of the Fifth Scene of the Second Act in Guarini's Pastor Fido, Translated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [T79268]
- Page No(s):
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Part of the Fifth Scene of the Second Act in Guarini's Pastor Fido, Translated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of the Right Honourable the Earls of Rochester, and Roscommon... The Third Edition. [II]. [**query: should be deleted??**]
- Page No(s):
- pp.33-36
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol II] [ECCO] [T94652]
- Page No(s):
- pp.29-31
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol II] [T95392]
- Page No(s):
- pp.33-36
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
Poem Aliases
Guarini. Pastor Fido.
Roscommon. Guarini's Pastor Fido.
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