By a prattling stream in a midsummer's eve
- DMI number:
- 23200
- First Line:
- By a prattling stream in a midsummer's eve
- Last Line:
- As true to his flame as this flower to the sun
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain aabb and Song
- Themes:
- Nature and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Christopher Smart
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Poetical Works, IV: 155.
- First Line:
- By a prattling stream on a midsummer's eve
- Last Line:
- As true to his flame as the flower to her sun
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The merry companion, or humorous miscellany [T178332] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- Sweet William.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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