Ah well a day how long must I endure
- DMI number:
- 22697
- First Line:
- Ah well a day how long must I endure
- Last Line:
- Stay simple girl a lover cannot harm
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Pastoral and Couplet
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy and Love
- Author:
- Ambrose Philips
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The First Pastoral ('If we o Dorset quit the city throng'), Segar (1937): 5-9, 44-47.
- First Line:
- A shepherd boy all in an evening fair
- Last Line:
- To slumbers soft his sorrowing breast invite
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- If we O Dorset quit the city throng
- Last Line:
- To slumbers soft his heavy heart invite
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq. [ESTC T88302]
- Page No(s):
- pp.142-144
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
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