When You Were Seventeen

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When You Were Seventeen

Poet(s)

Fraser, John W.

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

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Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 6:308, 752, 20 November 1869.

First line

When the hay was mown, Maggie

Authorship

Unsigned

Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: Modern Scottish Poets, edited by D. H. Edwards, twelfth series, D. H. Edwards, 1889, pp. 317-18. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as John Fraser, with a payment of 15s (NLS Dep 341/310). (AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7689

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

When You Were Seventeen