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‘Ride on, thy peerless beauty! frank and free’

POEM DETAILS

Poem details

‘Ride on, thy peerless beauty! frank and free’

METADATA

Metadata

‘Ride on, thy peerless beauty! frank and free’

Poet(s)

J. A. (poet; Blackwood’s)
Pseudonym:
J. A.

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 41:258, 431–432, April 1837.

First line

Ride on, thy peerless beauty! frank and free

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

Included in the unsigned prose essay Our Two Vases, by John Wilson (429-48). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 14109

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘Ride on, thy peerless beauty! frank and free’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1837/pom_14109_ride_on_thy_peerless_beauty.html.

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