How happy is the harmless country maid
- DMI number:
- 5488
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- How happy is the harmless country maid
- Last Line:
- And whilst they live their flames can never die
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lyric and Couplet
- Themes:
- Rural life, The happy man / contentment, and Women / the female character
- Author:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Part of the fifth scene of the second act in Guarini's Pastor Fido. Chalmers (1810) VIII: 268.
- First Line:
- Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat
- Last Line:
- And whilst they live their flames can never die
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of the best modern poems [T124388] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.214
- Poem Title:
- The happy Country Maid
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roscom.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
Poem Aliases
Roscommon. Guarini's Pastor Fido.
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