But when the swinging signs your ears offend
- DMI number:
- 28408
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- But when the swinging signs your ears offend
- Last Line:
- Which from the blue eyed Patty takes the name
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Mythology and Weather[Storm]
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Trivia (Book I). Dearing and Beckwith (1974) I: 134-172.
- First Line:
- Good housewives all the winter's rage despise
- Last Line:
- Which from the blue eyed Patty takes the name
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- pp.264-268
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gay, in his Trivia
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
Poem Aliases
Gay. Trivia.
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