‘If a merry blade am I’

METADATA

Metadata

‘If a merry blade am I’

Poet(s)

Zoheir, Behâ el dîn

Credits

Translator

Palmer, Edward Henry

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Temple Bar 62, 205, June 1881.

First line

If a merry blade am I

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Arabic

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned prose contribution Arab Humour (194-207) by Edward Henry Palmer (Wellesley Index). Translation attrubution: E. H. Palmer, The Poetical Works of Behá-ed-dín Zoheir of Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1877), p. 81. (EW, NM)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 17733

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

‘If a merry blade am I’