Summer Night May Clarissa Gillington (Byron) Gillington, May Clarissa (Byron) Illustrator Unsigned Metadata research and editing DVPP Project Team University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project Victoria, BC, Canada

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 Poem signed M. C. Gillington. #makeRelatedPoems Woman’s World 2 464 The hay is down, ye moon is high Corrected and proofed figure and figDesc. Added figure, figDesc, and @ana values. Re-organized change elements in descending date order. Generated file, added revisionDesc and set status to 'generated'.
High in the dark sky, the moon illuminates a rural settlement. There are trees scattered throughout the settlement and a bay is visible in the background. There are flowers at the forefront of the illustration. Illustration is partially contained by a single-ruled border that also contains the poem. The flowers extend out of the right side of the illustration to continue the border. The word “July” is superimposed over a foliate along the top edge of the illustration. 1/2 page.