Now lightly skimming over the strings they pass
- DMI number:
- 15571
- First Line:
- Now lightly skimming over the strings they pass
- Last Line:
- And gives the swelling tones a manly grace
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Pastoral and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Animals[Nightingale]
- Author:
- Ambrose Philips
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Fifth Pastoral ('In rural strains we first our music try'), Segar (1937): 28-31, 66-70.
- First Line:
- In rural strains we first our music try
- Last Line:
- And by his tale unenvied praises won
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellanea. In Two Volumes. [T39417]
- Page No(s):
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Philips's Pastorals
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
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