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Bleak mountains and wild staring rocks

DMI number:
37846
First Line:
Bleak mountains and wild staring rocks
Last Line:
And the nymphs as polite as the swains
Poem Genre / Form:
Pastoral and Quatrain abab
Themes:
Rural life
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Author:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
LION: extract from THE BRIDE IN THE COUNTRY. A Parody on Rowe's Ballad, "Despairing beside a clear stream," &c. ('By the side of a half-rotten wood').