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VII. (‘A lonely bird that’s prisoned in its cage’)

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VII. (‘A lonely bird that’s prisoned in its cage’)

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VII. (‘A lonely bird that’s prisoned in its cage’)

Poet(s)

Martin, Frances

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Macmillan’s Magazine 34:204, 555, October 1876.

First line

A lonely bird that’s prisoned in its cage

Document status

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

Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

I. (“Day after day I watch a level shore”)
II. (“Is this the truth, and is it thou dost stand”)
III. (“My spirit hovers round thy happy home”)
IV. (“I passed a night of anguish and of fear”)
V. (“I think when I look back from some high sphere”)
VI. (“Bethink thee, oh my heart, if it be well”)
VIII. (“I follow thee as does the patient earth”)
IX. (“Yes, love, thou art the one star that I seek”)
X. (“Am I so far from thee, or all too near?”)
XI. (“Methinks that thou has led me to a vast”)
XII. (“I stand alone upon a mountain height”)

Notes and attribution research

Poem signed Frances Martin. One of twelve poems with the general title Sonnets (553-56). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 16059

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “VII. (‘A lonely bird that’s prisoned in its cage’),” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.9beta, University of Victoria, 18th March 2024, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/macmillan/1876/pom_16059_vii_a_lonely_bird_thats.html.

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