The Maiden’s Prayer

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The Maiden’s Prayer

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Wolffsohn, Lily

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 42:248, 605, October 1897.

First line

Holy Catherine, I beseech thee

Authorship

Unsigned

Original language

Italian

Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

From the Abruzzi
Songs of the Sea
The Castle in the Sea
Born by the Sea
Betrayed
The Ring in the Sea
Imprisoned Sunshine
The Dream-Ship
Rose and Roses
Wishes
Life’s Vanity
Out at Sea
Roses in the Garden
Bird Message
The Wager
My Love at Church
The Only Beauty
Catching the Moon
Bird Song
Love and Suicide
The Night-Bird
Cradle Song

Notes and attribution research

Published with a series of other translations by Lily Wolffsohn under the general title Specimens of Italian Folk-Song (In English Versification) (602-13). Poem signed (Ischia). (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8705

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The Maiden’s Prayer