Shooting for the Silver Cup

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Shooting for the Silver Cup

Poet(s)

Thornbury, George Walter

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 1:48, 768, 26 November 1864.

First line

Red in the sun, the danger-flag

Authorship

Unsigned

Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: George Walter Thornbury, Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, Chatto and Windus, 1876, p. 213. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as W. Thornbury with payment of £1 1s (NLS 341/310). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7142

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Shooting for the Silver Cup