Twas when the seas were roaring
- DMI number:
- 552
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Twas when the seas were roaring
- Last Line:
- She bowed her head and died
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes and Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The What d'ye call it Act 2 Scene 8. Fuller (1983) I.
- First Line:
- Twas when the seas were roaring
- Last Line:
- And so the impostor died
- Relationship:
- Parody Of/Parodied By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Twas when the seas were roaring
- Last Line:
- All on a rock reclined
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Fifth Edition [Vol. 1] [T5782]
- Page No(s):
- pp.225-227
- Poem Title:
- A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Fifth Edition. [Vol. I] [ECCO] [T5781]
- Page No(s):
- pp.225-227
- Poem Title:
- A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Sixth Edition [vol. 1] [N1461] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.[224]-226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Choice [?not Suarez?] [T59141] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Song XLII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Merry-Musician; or a Cure for the Spleen. Being ...The Second Edition [?not Suarez?]
- Page No(s):
- pp.297-299
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The New Vocal Miscellany. Containing near 200 Songs [T179110] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.52-53
- Poem Title:
- Song 71. 'Twas when the Seas were roaring.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Feriae Poeticae [T76163] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.150-154
- Poem Title:
- The Despairing Damsel.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The art of poetry made easy, [...]: being the seventh volume of the Circle of the sciences [T120153]
- Page No(s):
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- by the same ingenious Gentleman [i.e. Gay]
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- pp.70-71
- Poem Title:
- Song 103. By Mr. Gay, in the What d'ye call it.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- 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.70-71
- Poem Title:
- Song 103.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gay, in the What d'ye call it.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
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Gay. What d'ye call it.
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