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Spider Orchids single work poetry "Still they stand upon the hillside and the low sun glances"

Author:agent Marie E. J. Pitt http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/pitt-marie-e-j

Issue Details: First known date: 1917... 1917 Spider Orchids

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Author's note: An old legend says that spider orchids were fairy dancers who outstayed the night and paid the penalty of their defiance of the dawn by being rooted for ever.

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y Birth : A Little Journal of Australian Poetry vol. 1 no. 9 August 1917 Z662800 1917 periodical issue 1917
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1917
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pg. 1
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y School Paper : Grades V and VI no. 231 November 1917 Z1653312 1917 periodical issue 1917
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1917
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pg. [145]-146
Note: With (unattributed) photograph: 'Slipper Orchids'.
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y The Australian Poetry Annual 1920 Z1147260 1920 periodical issue 1920
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1920
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pg. 12-13
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y Bairnsdale and Other Poems Marie E. J. Pitt , William Wannan (editor), Bairnsdale : Back to Bairnsdale Committee , 1922 Z575733 1922 selected work poetry Bairnsdale : Back to Bairnsdale Committee , 1922
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1922
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pg. 12
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y School Paper : Grades V and VI no. 312 February 1925 Z1637708 1925 periodical issue 1925
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1925
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pg. 7-8
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y Victorian Readers : Sixth Book Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1929 Z1417043 1929 anthology poetry prose children's fiction essay extract Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1929
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1929
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pg. 164-165
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y Victorian Readers : Sixth Book Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1929 Z1417043 1929 anthology poetry prose children's fiction essay extract Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1940
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1940
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pg. 164-165
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y Selected Poems of Marie E. J. Pitt Marie E. J. Pitt , Melbourne : Lothian , 1944 Z575943 1944 selected work poetry Melbourne : Lothian , 1944
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1944
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pg. 20-21

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