Song

METADATA

Metadata

Song

Poet(s)

Dyer, Edward

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Penny Magazine Series 1 1:25, 203, 25 August 1832.

First line

My mind to me a kingdom is

Authorship

Unsigned

Document status

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Notes and attribution research

Headnote: This celebrated song is printed in several collections of Poems published in the sixteenth century. There are many variations in each of the copies. The following version is that given by Ritson in his ‘English Songs;’ with the exception of the last stanza, which is from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. In that manuscript the Poem is ascribed to Sir Edward Dyer, a friend of Sir Philip Sidney.

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 2919

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Song