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Shook from the evening's fragrant wings

DMI number:
33706
First Line:
Shook from the evening's fragrant wings
Last Line:
Soon each gay form decays
Poem Genre / Form:
Quatrain abab and Ode
Themes:
Love and Nature
Related People
Author:
James Beattie
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Brydges (1807) 153-154; compare Chalmers (1810) XVIII: 543-544.
Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of the best modern poems [T124388] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.232-233
Poem Title:
Retirement
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
Modern poems: selected chiefly from miscellanies published lately. [T54021] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.48-49
Poem Title:
XIV. Retirement. By the Same.
Attribution:
[Beattie]
Attributed To:
James Beattie