Sorais’ Song

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Sorais’ Song

Poet(s)

Possibly by
Haggard, Henry Rider
Barber, Agnes

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Longman’s Magazine 10:55, 32, May 1887.

First line

As a desolate bird that through darkness its lost way is winging

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the prose contribution Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard (1-33) (EW). Agnes Barber, H. Rider Haggard’s sister-in-law and secretary, is credited with writing this poem, although it is possible that Haggard may have contributed to its creation as well. Poet attribution: Claire Mabilat, British Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Long Nineteenth Century, Doctoral Thesis, University of Durham, 2006. p. 116. (NM)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 18779

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Sorais’ Song