Upon a bough hung trembling over a spring
- DMI number:
- 44573
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Reference: LION
- First Line:
- Upon a bough hung trembling over a spring
- Last Line:
- Nymphs take my life since you despise my song
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Complaint, Couplet, and Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy, Mythology, and Nature
- Author:
- Philip Ayres
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Attributed to Philip Ayres on LION. Same main body of poem with slightly different title
- Title:
- Poems by several hands on several occasions [R22319]
- Page No(s):
- p.75-76
- Poem Title:
- On a Nightingale that was drowned
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
The Nightingale that was drowned
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