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Ask not the cause why all the tuneful swains

DMI number:
6463
First Line:
Ask not the cause why all the tuneful swains
Last Line:
While hyacinths and myrtles round her spring
Poem Genre / Form:
Pastoral, Elegy, and Couplet
Themes:
Death
Related People
Author:
Elijah Fenton
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Florelio a pastoral. Chalmers (1810) X: 393-395.
Content/Publication
Title:
Oxford and Cambridge miscellany poems [T145730]
Page No(s):
pp.1-13
Poem Title:
Florelio. A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of the Late Marquis of Blandford.
Attribution:
By Mr Fenton
Attributed To:
Elijah Fenton