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Alternative title: The Poet's Wish: A Fragment
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Appears in:
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Australasian Chronicle
vol.
4
no.
451
27 September
1842
Z1126765
1842
newspaper issue
1842
pg.
2
Note: With title: 'The Poet's Wish: A Fragment'. Comprises 42 lines.
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Appears in:
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The Bushrangers, a Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems
Sydney
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W. R. Piddington
,
1853
Z100447
1853
selected work
poetry
drama
Sydney
:
W. R. Piddington
,
1853
pg.
96-100
Note: Comprises 158 lines.
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Appears in:
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A Poet's Home
Sydney
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s.n.
,
1862
Z1132467
1862
selected work
poetry
Sydney
:
s.n.
,
1862
pg.
3-11
Note: Comprises 240 lines
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Notes:At head of poem:
As erewhile pictured in a sweet day-dream / Amid the cloudlands of Hope's vernal sky, / In soul-born colors -- such as only beam, / To enhance all beauty, through the Poet's eye.-
Appears in:
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The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur
Elizabeth Perkins
(editor),
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
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1984
Z459555
1984
selected work
poetry
satire
'This collection represents one version of almost every poem written by Charles Harpur, with the omission of some translations and paraphrases. The verse drama, "Stalwart the Bushranger", and the fragments of the dramatic poem "King Saul" are not included. ... The collection is edited from Harpur's manuscript poems held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and from printed copies in colonial newspapers when no manuscript version existed.' (Preface)
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
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1984
pg.
224-234
Note: Comprises Parts I and II and totals 336 lines.
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