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2 (‘A bee hangs over every flower’)

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2 (‘A bee hangs over every flower’)

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2 (‘A bee hangs over every flower’)

Poet(s)

M C G. (poet; Century Guild)
Pseudonym:
M C G.

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Century Guild Hobby Horse 0:1, 20, April 1884.

First line

A bee hangs over every flower

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

The Praise
Fore-Thoughts
1 (“Surely thou wanderest sometimes o’er the waste”)
3 (“Hold—hold my hands and lure my lips awhile”)
The Fire’s Breath
1 (“Nelly, if I could prophesy thee never”)
2 (“I will love thee as a spirit”)
3 (“Only a sense of something, Sweet”)
4 (“Death is now a hope of sorrow”)
5 (“Love, I cannot hold thee longer”)
6 (“Are not these too poor to give you”)
After Thoughts
1 (“You leave me, dear, a craft of fear”)
2 (“When the song raves in thy head”)
3 (“O Glory mine, black floods are thick”)

Notes and attribution research

Poem included under the general title The Praise (15-33). This poem appears in the prospectus issue of Century Guild Hobby Horse. Page images kindly supplied by the University of British Columbia Library. (SP)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 15988

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “2 (‘A bee hangs over every flower’),” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/hobbyhorse/1884/pom_15988_2_a_bee_hangs_over_every.html.

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