What are the falling rills the pendent shades
- DMI number:
- 19784
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What are the falling rills the pendent shades
- Last Line:
- Inly he bleeds and pants his soul away
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Fragment, Answer/reply, Extract / snippet from longer work, Quatrain aabb, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy, Nature, and Death
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Forster (1980): 62. Extract from To Mr Gay who wrote him a congratulatory letter on the finishing his house. Twickenham edition VI: 225-226.
- Title:
- The Norfolk poetical miscellany [Vol 2] [ESTC T85536]
- Page No(s):
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- A Fragment, on Solitude.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The poetical miscellany, consisting of great variety of odes, epistles, pastorals, tales, fables, epigrams &c. [vol 2] [T85564] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- A Fragment, on Solitude.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. [T5465] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- A Fragment, attributed by some to Mr. Pope, and by others to Mr. Congreve. It has however been seen in the Hand-writing of the former.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. [T5466] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.201-202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- New foundling hospital for wit part the fourth [T139947] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- On Reading a Poem, Entitled "A Fit of the Spleen", by Dr. Ibbott.
- Attribution:
- Verses by Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. XII. For December. [T146608]
- Page No(s):
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- Verses by Mr. Pope, on Reading a Poem, Entitled "A Fit of the Spleen," by Dr. Ibbott*.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. To Mr. Gay, who Wrote him a Congratulatory Letter on the Finishing of His House.
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