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What are the falling rills the pendent shades

DMI number:
19784
Poem Aliases
Pope. To Mr. Gay, who Wrote him a Congratulatory Letter on the Finishing of His House.
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
Related People
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.
Content/Publication
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