Here Maro rests beneath the fragrant shade

DMI number:

30490

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Here Maro rests beneath the fragrant shade

Last Line:

Give me the products of his rural muse

Poem Genre / Form:

Inscription and Couplet

Themes:

Gardens and Poetry / literature / writing[Virgil Georgics Eclogues]

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Author:

William Thompson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Forster (1980): 67.

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Content/Publication

Title:

The Poetical Calendar. Vol. VIII. For August. [T146609]

Page No(s):

p.114

Poem Title:

XVI. Under His Eclogues and Georgics, by the Cascade.

Attribution:

By William Thompson, M.A. Late Fellow of Queen's College, Oxon.

Attributed To:

William Thompson