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‘When the violet breaks to flower’

POEM DETAILS

Poem details

‘When the violet breaks to flower’

METADATA

Metadata

‘When the violet breaks to flower’

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Hardinge, William Money

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 9:51, 815, May 1881.

First line

When the violet breaks to flower

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

French

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Notes and attribution research

According to Hardinge, Contanseau dates the poem to the year 1160. English translation appears in William M. Hardinge’s French Verse in English (812-837). (HR) Poem originally published in M. Léon Contanseau’s Précis de la littérature française, depuis son origine jusqu’à nos jours, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860, p. 8. (KF)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7900

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘When the violet breaks to flower’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1881/pom_7900_when_the_violet_breaks_to.html.

For more information on citation, see How to cite the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project.

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