‘The blossom was white on the blackthorn tree’

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‘The blossom was white on the blackthorn tree’

Poet(s)

Black, William

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Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Longman’s Magazine 5:27, 253, January 1885.

First line

The blossom was white on the blackthorn tree

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the prose contribution White Heather: A Novel by William Black (219-53) (HD). Poet attribution: William Black, The Wise Women of Inverness (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893), pp. 107-56, where the poems from White Heather are reprinted. (BGL)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 18670

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

‘The blossom was white on the blackthorn tree’