The Captive’s Dream

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The Captive’s Dream

Poet(s)

Aitken, William

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Chartist Circular 1:88, 372, 29 May 1841.

First line

When night o’er earth her mantle threw

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Notes and attribution research

Head note to poem: The following verses were composed in my cell, at the close of a nine months’ imprisonment , for ‘Seditious Conspiracy,’ which means, in these days, haters of poverty and oppression. Kirkdale prison is contiguous to the ocean.

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 102

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Captive’s Dream