The Thresher’s Song

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The Thresher’s Song

Poet(s)

Townshend (Townsend), H. J.

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 2:84, 496, 5 August 1865.

First line

Flail and flail, we cheer’ly work

Authorship

Unsigned

Document status

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Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as H. Townshend, care of Miss E. [Eliza] Meteyard, Wildwood, North End, Hampstead, with payment of £1 (NLS 341/310). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7178

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Thresher’s Song