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IX. (‘Oh remember that my home was once the top of thy street’)

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IX. (‘Oh remember that my home was once the top of thy street’)

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IX. (‘Oh remember that my home was once the top of thy street’)

Poet(s)

Hafez

Credits

Translator

Cowell, Edward Byles

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Macmillan’s Magazine 30:177, 257, July 1874.

First line

Oh remember that my home was once the top of thy street

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Persian

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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V. (“Oh friends of my bosom, remember last night’s wine”)
VI. (“I long for the strong wine and its man-o’ermastering strength”)
VII. (“I have the edict of the old man of the tavern, and ‘tis an ancient saying”)
VIII. (“We have tried our lot in this city of our fortune”)
X. (“In the morning, when heavy with last night’s revel”)
XI. (“Offtimes have I said it, and again I say it”)
XII. (“The dust of this body of mine is the veil of the face of the soul”)

Notes and attribution research

One of twelve poems included in the unsigned The Persian Poet Háfiz (251-58), by Edward Byles Cowell (Wellesley Index). (JS, AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 16072

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “IX. (‘Oh remember that my home was once the top of thy street’),” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.9beta, University of Victoria, 18th March 2024, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/macmillan/1874/pom_16072_ix_oh_remember_that_my_home.html.

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