While swiftly down the skies the day descends

DMI number:

4237

First Line:

While swiftly down the skies the day descends

Last Line:

Adorn my songs and tune my voice to love

Poem Genre / Form:

Dialogue, Pastoral, and Couplet

Themes:

Friendship, Love, and Sex / relations between the sexes

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Author:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Variant of 'Love and Friendship; A Pastoral'. Rowe (1795): 20-22.

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Content/Publication

Title:

Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]

Page No(s):

pp.378[379]-382

Poem Title:

A Pastoral, Inscrib'd to The Honourable, Mrs. ---.

Attribution:

By the same hand [i.e. Singer]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

Title:

The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]

Page No(s):

pp.171-173

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A Pastoral inscrib'd to the Honourable Mrs. --

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By the same Hand [i.e. Singer Rowe]

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Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

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The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]

Page No(s):

pp.174-176

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A Pastoral, inscrib'd to the Honourable, Mrs. --

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'By the same hand' [i.e. Singer Rowe]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]