EBBA 37590
British Library - Bagford
| A Description of a Great Sea-Storm, / That happened to some Ships in the Gulph of FLORIDA, in September last; Drawn up by one of the / Company, and sent to his Friend at London. / THE PREFACE. / THe blustring Winds are husht into a Calme; / No Air stirs now, but what my Muse Embalm'd, / Breaths forth to thee, dear Friend; Heaven smiles upon / My Paper, and the Sea turnes Helicon; / The Mermaids Muses all, the Sea-Nymphs, bring / Aid to my Genius, whilst to thee I Sing / Of Storms, Gusts, Tempests, if compar'd to these, / Bermoodus Winds are but a Gentle Breez; / And to express them fully, I am faine / To raise in Verse a kind of Hurrycane. | |
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| Date Published | 1662-1686 ? |
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| Imprint | London, Printed by Thomas Milbourn, for Dorman Newman, at the King's Armes in the Poultry, 1671. |
| License | Licensed, August the 5th. 1671. Roger L'Estrange. |
| Collection | British Library - Bagford |
| Page | 3.58 |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.40.m.11.(58.) |
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| Title | A Description of a Great Sea-Storm, / That happened to some Ships in the Gulph of FLORIDA, in September last; Drawn up by one of the / Company, and sent to his Friend at London. / THE PREFACE. / THe blustring Winds are husht into a Calme; / No Air stirs now, but what my Muse Embalm'd, / Breaths forth to thee, dear Friend; Heaven smiles upon / My Paper, and the Sea turnes Helicon; / The Mermaids Muses all, the Sea-Nymphs, bring / Aid to my Genius, whilst to thee I Sing / Of Storms, Gusts, Tempests, if compar'd to these, / Bermoodus Winds are but a Gentle Breez; / And to express them fully, I am faine / To raise in Verse a kind of Hurrycane. |
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| First Lines | NOthing but Air and Water is in sight; / (I am no Poet here, since Truth I wright.) |
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| Notes | This item is not a broadside ballad, but is archived in EBBA because it is included in the important Bagford collection of ballads. |