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Can we forget how every creature moaned

DMI number:
22505
First Line:
Can we forget how every creature moaned
Last Line:
And thorns and thistles overspread the fields
Poem Genre / Form:
Pastoral, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
Themes:
Death, Grief / sadness / melancholy, and Nature
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Author:
Ambrose Philips
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from 'The Third Pastoral' ('When Virgil thought no shame the dorick reed'), Segar (1937): 17-21, 54-58.
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First Line:
When Virgil thought no shame the dorick reed
Last Line:
Thy name and sweet memorial shall remain
Relationship:
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Content/Publication
Title:
Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq. [ESTC T88302]
Page No(s):
pp.134-135
Poem Title:
[No title]
Attribution:
In prose section before poem: "Give Attention, Reader, to his Attempt"
Attributed To:
Not attributed