To the Brother of Sleep

METADATA

Metadata

To the Brother of Sleep

Poet(s)

Rijfkogel, Albertine

Credits

Translator

Ralston, William Ralston Shedden (1828-1889)

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 3 9:217, 140, 27 February 1858.

First line

Thee folly waits with fear: but Wisdom smiling meets thee

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Dutch

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Notes and attribution research

Included in the unsigned Dutch Poetesses (139-40). Translator attribution: Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that the author of the article is W. Ralston of London, with the payment for the essay as £1 11s 6d (NLS 341/310). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 6438

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

To the Brother of Sleep