‘Whence rose ye? on what basement are ye stayed’

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‘Whence rose ye? on what basement are ye stayed’

Poet(s)

Hamilton, Richard Winter
Pseudonym:
Leodiensis

Credits

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DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 29:177, 342, February 1831.

First line

Whence rose ye? on what basement are ye stayed

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

“Are ye not bulwarks to this lovely Isle”
“Where are the deep-laid chymic cisterns, whence”
“A highway for your God! and lo! the Sea”
“And stretches outward,—to yon Wondrous Rock”
“Dread Temple of the Waters! Ocean-Shrine!”

Notes and attribution research

Poem included under the general title Sonnets on the Giants’ Causeway (342-43) by Leodiensis. Blackwood’s volume 29, number 177 is dated February, part II. (KF)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10961

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‘Whence rose ye? on what basement are ye stayed’