Passions are likened best to floods and streams
- DMI number:
- 13189
- First Line:
- Passions are likened best to floods and streams
- Last Line:
- And sues for no compassion
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lyric and Quatrain abab
- Themes:
- Love
- Author:
- Sir Robert Ayton
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- LION: the stanzas from 'Wrong not sweet mistress [empress] of my heart' onwards are also attributed to Ayton. query: source?
- Author:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Forster (1980): 63.
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- Song 4. The Silent Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Sir Walter Ralegh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Title:
- The historical and poetical medley or muses library [T61451] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.273-275
- Poem Title:
- The silent Lover.
- Attribution:
- Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Title:
- The muses library; or a series of English poetry [T144866] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.273-275
- Poem Title:
- The silent Lover.
- Attribution:
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Title:
- The muses library; or a series of English poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II [T144867] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.273-275
- Poem Title:
- The silent Lover.
- Attribution:
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. VI. For June. [T146608]
- Page No(s):
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- The Silent Lover.
- Attribution:
- By the Celebrated Sir Walter Rawleigh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- Song 4. The Silent Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Sir Walter Ralegh.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]
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