Upon a bough high waving over a spring
- DMI number:
- 19533
- First Line:
- Upon a bough high waving over a spring
- Last Line:
- Nymphs take my life since you despise my song
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Narrative verse and Couplet
- Themes:
- Animals[Nightingale], Music, and Mythology
- Author:
- Philip Ayres
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of 'The Nightingale that was drowned'. Ayres (1687): 55.
- First Line:
- High on a bough that trembled over a spring
- Last Line:
- Nymphs take my life since you despise my song
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
- Page No(s):
- p.74
- Poem Title:
- On a Nightingale, that was drown'd.
- Attribution:
- 'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
- Attributed To:
- John Winstanley
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