The Death of the First-Born

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The Death of the First-Born

Poet(s)

Watts, Alaric Alexander

Credits

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DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 17:96, 96–97, January 1825.

First line

My sweet one, my sweet one, the tears were in my eyes

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

Included in The Literary Souvenir (94-101), which is unsigned. Poem signed Alaric A. Watts (KAF). Strout (127) identifies the essay’s author as John Wilson (AC).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10174

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Death of the First-Born