The heavy hours are almost past
- DMI number:
- 22312
- First Line:
- The heavy hours are almost past
- Last Line:
- To die and think you mine
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Song
- Themes:
- Love
- Author:
- George Lyttelton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Suarez (1997) VI: 397. Chalmers (1810) XIV: 176.
- First Line:
- Fair nature's sweet simplicity
- Last Line:
- Tranquility and love
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Go Thames and tell the busy town
- Last Line:
- A Pope of every swain
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Let others heap of wealth a shining store
- Last Line:
- This hour is love's be fortune's all the rest
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- None without hope ever loved the brightest fair
- Last Line:
- But love can hope where reason would despair
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Once by the muse alone inspired
- Last Line:
- Its real flame to tell
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Parent of blooming flowers and gay desires
- Last Line:
- Can warm my heart to gladness and to love
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Say Myra why is gentle love
- Last Line:
- That never feels a pain
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Tell me my Delia tell me why
- Last Line:
- But I believe because I love
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Cobham to thee this rural lay I bring
- Last Line:
- Be told how Damon and his Delia loved
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Favourite of Venus and the tuneful nine
- Last Line:
- But be a country gentleman at heart
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Immortal bard for whom each muse has wove
- Last Line:
- And join the patriot's to the poet's praise
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O thou whose friendship is my joy and pride
- Last Line:
- That happiness is near allied to love
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Parent of arts whose skillful hand first taught
- Last Line:
- And other Bleinheims shall adorn the land
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Say dearest friend how roll thy hours away
- Last Line:
- And tells me these like England once were free
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Such is thy form O Poyntz but who shall find
- Last Line:
- Would for another think this praise designed
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The counsels of a friend Belinda hear
- Last Line:
- The rules of pleasing which to you I give
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Twas night and Flavia to her room retired
- Last Line:
- All other wishes my own power would gain
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When Delia on the plain appears
- Last Line:
- Tell me my heart if this be love
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems by several hands, in three volumes [Vol.2] [T124507]
- Page No(s):
- pp.51-53
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in four volumes by several hands Vol. 2 [T115888]
- Page No(s):
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 2] [T144532]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T101653] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T115890] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T144724] [ECCO] [OCTAVO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. the Author of The Progress of Love. In Four Eclogues]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T115891] [Vol.2] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T148949] [Vol. 2] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A Select Collection of Poems, From the most approved Authors, Vol 1 [T117085] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Feriae Poeticae [T76163] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.36-38
- Poem Title:
- Song II.
- Attribution:
- By --
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The choice spirit's chaplet: or, a poesy from Parnassus [T124505] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.160-161
- Poem Title:
- Song 124.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The choice spirit's chaplet: or, a poesy from Parnassus [T190572] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.160-161
- Poem Title:
- Song 124.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- Song 36.
- Attribution:
- By Geo. Ly--lt--n, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. With Notes [Vol 2] [T116246] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Lyttelton]
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- Title:
- A collection of poems in two volumes. By several hands [vol 1] [N27941] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Lyttelton]
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- Title:
- A select collection of poems from the most approved authors [vol 1] [N21829] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Lyttleton. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- Title:
- A Select Collection of Poems, From the most approved Authors, Vol 1 [N21809] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Lyttleton.
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- Song 35.
- Attribution:
- By Geo. Ly--tl--n, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
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