A Ballad of Sir Richard Fanshawe

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A Ballad of Sir Richard Fanshawe

Poet(s)

Smibert, Thomas

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DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1 8:379, 120, 4 May 1839.

First line

A goodly ship of English mould rode forth upon the main

Authorship

Unsigned

Notes and attribution research

Headnote: This ballad is but a metrical version of an anecdote related by Lady Fanshawe in her Memoirs, though the writer there bestows no such panegyric upon her own conduct as is here contained. Poet attribution: Thomas Smibert, Io Anche! Poems, chiefly lyrical, James Hogg, 1851, pp. 60-3. (AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 3727

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

A Ballad of Sir Richard Fanshawe