Despairing beside a clear stream
- DMI number:
- 496
- First Line:
- Despairing beside a clear stream
- Last Line:
- His ghost shall glide over the green
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Pastoral and Song
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears II: 805. 'Wrongly attributed to Prior'.
- Author:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears II: 805. Chalmers (1810) IX: 474.
- First Line:
- By the side of a murmuring stream
- Last Line:
- His ghost shall glide over the green
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Ye winds to whom Collin complains
- Last Line:
- And as constant a nymph I will prove
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellanea: the second volume [T39419] [partial reissue of T39417 vol. 2; reissue of T82103]
- Page No(s):
- pp.29-31
- Poem Title:
- Colin's Complaint. A Song. To the Tune of, Grim King of, the Ghosts.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The art of poetry made easy, [...]: being the seventh volume of the Circle of the sciences [T120153]
- Page No(s):
- pp.122-124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol 2] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Choice [?not Suarez?] [T59141] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- Song VIII.
- 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.159-161
- Poem Title:
- Collin's Complaint: A Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The New Vocal Miscellany. Containing near 200 Songs [T179110] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.89-91
- Poem Title:
- Song 119. Collin's Complaint,
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Original poems and translations by several hands [N25731]
- Page No(s):
- pp.88-91
- Poem Title:
- Colin's Complaint.
- Attribution:
- By N. Rowe Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Title:
- Poems and translations by several hands [T63452]
- Page No(s):
- pp.88-91
- Poem Title:
- Colin's Complaint.
- Attribution:
- By N. Rowe Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Title:
- The beauties of English poesy [vol 2] [T146028] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.159-161
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Rowe
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Title:
- The beauties of English poesy [vol 2] [T146032] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.159-161
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Title:
- The Bee. A Collection of Choice Poems [Part I] [N32537]
- Page No(s):
- pp.5-7
- Poem Title:
- Colin's Complaint.
- Attribution:
- Rowe. ap. Poems and Translations, by several Hands. Pemberton. 1714. p. 88.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- Song 96. Colin's Complaint.
- Attribution:
- By Nich. Rowe, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- 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.64-65
- Poem Title:
- Song 96. Colin's Complaint.
- Attribution:
- By Nich. Rowe, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
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