I. (‘The queen of all the months is with us now’)

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I. (‘The queen of all the months is with us now’)

Poet(s)

Kidson, Eastwood

Unsigned

Credits

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Source

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

First line

The queen of all the months is with us now

Authorship

Unsigned

Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

II. (“Old Chaucer’s daisy ope’s its golden eye”)
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: 7330

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

I. (‘The queen of all the months is with us now’)