II. (‘Old Chaucer’s daisy ope’s its golden eye’)

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II. (‘Old Chaucer’s daisy ope’s its golden eye’)

Poet(s)

Kidson, Eastwood

Unsigned

Credits

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DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 3:123, 288, 5 May 1866.

First line

Old Chaucer’s daisy ope’s its golden eye

Authorship

Unsigned

Document status

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Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

I. (“The queen of all the months is with us now”)
III. (“The odorous air, made up of meadow-smells”)

Notes and attribution research

One of three sonnets with the general title May Sonnets. Poet attribution: Eastwood Kidson, Told in a City Garden. Tales and Lyrics, Elliot Stock, 1889, pp. 134-6. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as J. E. Kidston [sic], 39 Culford Road, De Beauvoir Town [North London], with payment of £1 1s (NLS 341/310). (AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 16052

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

II. (‘Old Chaucer’s daisy ope’s its golden eye’)