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
- 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.
- First Line:
- When Virgil thought no shame the Doric reed
- Last Line:
- Thy name and sweet remembrance shall remain
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When Virgil thought no shame the dorick reed
- Last Line:
- Thy name and sweet memorial shall remain
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- 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
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