‘Baby Jesus lay on Mary’s lap’

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Metadata

‘Baby Jesus lay on Mary’s lap’

Poet(s)

MacDonald, George

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Temple Bar 33, 450, November 1871.

First line

Baby Jesus lay on Mary’s lap

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the prose contribution ‘Good-bye, Sweetheart!’ by Rhoda Broughton (433-55) (EW). Poet attribution: George MacDonald, The Disciple and Other Poems (London: Strahan and Co., 1867), p. 197, where the poem is entitled A Christmas Carol. (BGL)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 17400

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

‘Baby Jesus lay on Mary’s lap’