A Ballad of the Period

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A Ballad of the Period

Poet(s)

Calverley, Charles Stuart

Unsigned

Credits

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Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 6:306, 720, 6 November 1869.

First line

The auld wife sat at her ivied door

Authorship

Unsigned

Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: The English Poems of Charles Stuart Calverley, Leicester University Press, 1974, pp. 74-5. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as C. S. Calverley, with a payment of £1 1s (NLS Dep 341/310). (AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7687

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

A Ballad of the Period