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‘O rock the sweet carnation red’

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Poem details

‘O rock the sweet carnation red’

METADATA

Metadata

‘O rock the sweet carnation red’

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 24:138, 249, August 1888.

First line

O rock the sweet carnation red

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Greek

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Notes and attribution research

Greek lullaby from Lucy Garnett’s volume of Greek folk-songs (250), included in Laura Alexandrine Smith’s Workers’ Songs (238-50). (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8298

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘O rock the sweet carnation red’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1888/pom_8298_o_rock_the_sweet_carnation_red.html.

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