A Lie

METADATA

Metadata

A Lie

Poet(s)

Thornbury, George Walter

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 2:60, 112, 18 February 1865.

First line

A thistle grew in a sluggard’s croft

Authorship

Unsigned

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: George Walter Thornbury, Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, Chatto and Windus, 1876, p. 140. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as Walter Thornbury, with payment of 10s 6d (NLS 341/310). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7154

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

A Lie