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Title: Psalm LXV. The blessings of the Spring; or, God gives rain
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Religious poem, praising God's works as manifested in nature. A
paraphrase of Psalm 65.
Title: The city showr
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Attribution: Swift ap. Tatler 238, vol.4, p.215, vid Pref. vol.4, p.1 ap
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Detailed description of the progress and effects of a heavy
shower of rain in the city of London. Lightly satirical.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Translation of an epigram by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (11), on refreshing flowers with rain; with some revisions or corrections
Title: Upon drinking King George's health at the Cross in Edinburgh on a rainy day, May 28, 1715
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: By a lady, extempore
Date(s): 1715 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Humorous poem set in Edinburgh on George I's birthday, in which rain reverses the miracle of turning water into wine
Title: A young gentleman's epitaph who died lately of a north-east wind
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 44
Contents: Elegiac epitaph on the death of a youth from the effect of the
wind, urging it, in sorrowful repentance, to bring storms of
rain. Corrected.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem comparing the blessings of God to the fall of rain on parched earth; headed 'Dec 16th'; with some revisions or corrections
Title: Aenigma 1
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: The first in a set of nine enigmas or riddles, (headed 'Aenigmaes'), with the solution given in Latin in the top right corner as Pluvia (or rain)
Title: A Persian Fable
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 125
Contents: Tale about a drop of rain, which falls into the sea, is swallowed by an oyster. It develops into a pearl, which later adorns the crown of the Persian king
Title: Upon the crown imperiall
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On how the flower known as the crown imperial appears never to shed the rain water collected in it, unlike the author's soul which is for ever overflowing
Title: Spoken to a young lady, as she was departing from us on a rainy day
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Occasional lyric, in which the poet imagines nature sympathizing with his own sadness as he says goodbye to a young lady, and shedding tears in the form of rain
Title: On the thunder happening after the coronation of Charles 2, etc. on St
George's Day, Anno Domini 1661. [Latin epigraph, from Martial.]
Author: Bold, Henry; of New College, Oxford
Attribution: Henry Bold, Coll. Nov.
Date(s): 1661 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 38
Contents: Witty panegyric on Charles II, making out that the thunder and rain at his
coronation were signs of heaven's approval, showing too that on this occasion
the king outshone the sun
Title: Phthisis, or the Consumption, where-of I.M. died In the Flower of his youth. June 1702. These following lines with these marks (,,) are 'on his Funeral day, which was a show'ry season
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 1702 (in title)
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Lines composed on the funeral day of a dead child, drawing an imaginative comparison between the weeping of friends and the metaphorical weeping of rain. Part of a collection of poems on the death of members of the More family of Framlingham,
Suffolk.