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Bhanarach Dhomi A (Brown-Haired Dairymaid)

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Bhanarach Dhomi A (Brown-Haired Dairymaid)

METADATA

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Bhanarach Dhomi A (Brown-Haired Dairymaid)

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 24:138, 241–242, August 1888.

First line

Oh! sweeter thy music

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Scottish Gaelic

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Quoted in the same prose item

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“Bees, of Bees of Paradise”
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“O rock the sweet carnation red”
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“Watch, barrel! watch! mackerel for to ketch”
“Now, men! hats off!”

Notes and attribution research

Gaelic milking song cited in Laura Alexandrine Smith’s essay Workers’ Songs (238-50). (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8277

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “Bhanarach Dhomi A (Brown-Haired Dairymaid),” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1888/pom_8277_bhanarach_dhomi_a_brownhaired.html.

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