Under the Cliffs

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Under the Cliffs

Poet(s)

Thornbury, George Walter

Unsigned

Credits

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Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 1:42, 672, 15 October 1864.

First line

The sails, now white as a swan’s breath

Authorship

Unsigned

Document status

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Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: George Walter Thornbury, Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, Chatto and Windus, 1876, pp. 217-18. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as W. Thornbury, London, with payment of 10s 6d (NLS 341/310). (AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7136

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Under the Cliffs