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‘Farewell! for while this life besets me’

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Poem details

‘Farewell! for while this life besets me’

METADATA

Metadata

‘Farewell! for while this life besets me’

Poet(s)

de Musset, Alfred

Credits

Translator

Hardinge, William Money

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 9:51, 837, May 1881.

First line

Farewell! for while this life besets me

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

French

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the article French Verse in English (812-37) by William M. Hardinge. (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7951

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘Farewell! for while this life besets me’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1881/pom_7951_farewell_for_while_this_life.html.

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