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No. IV. The Evening Lake

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No. IV. The Evening Lake

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No. IV. The Evening Lake

Poet(s)

Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆)
Pseudonym:
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Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 9:53, 505, August 1821.

First line

How softly o er the silver lake

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Related poems

Linked as a series in non-consecutive issues

No. I. The Invitation
No. II. The Separation
No. III. The Dreary Moor
No. V. The Marble Heart
No. VI. The Evening Star
No. VII. The Pillow of the Tent
No. VIII. Come, Mary, to Me!
No. IX. To Betsy
No. X. The Evening Invitation
No. XI. Absence
No. XII. The Wanderer’s Adieu

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9348

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “No. IV. The Evening Lake,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.10beta , University of Victoria, 30th April 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1821/pom_9348_no_iv_the_evening_lake.html.

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