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On Seeing Her Dressed in White single work poetry "Dress ever thus should Rosa! yes, to me,"

Alternative title: On First Seeing Rosa Dressed in White

Is part of Petrarchian Musings; or, The Hundred Sonnets of Love Charles Harpur , 1843 sequence poetry

Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles

Issue Details: First known date: 1843... 1843 On Seeing Her Dressed in White

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y The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts, and General Literature vol. 1 no. 16 11 November 1843 Z1661134 1843 newspaper issue 1843
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1843
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pg. 245

First line of verse: "Dressed all in snowy white! I saw her so,"

Appears in:

y The Sydney Morning Herald vol. 54 no. 8880 7 November 1866 Z1828527 1866 newspaper issue 1866
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1866
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pg. 3
Note: One of 10 sonnets appearing together. This one is titled "VI".

First line of verse: "Thus should she always dress! -- in white. To me"

Appears in:

y Bards in the Wilderness : Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920 Adrian Mitchell (editor), Brian Elliott (editor), Melbourne : Nelson , 1970 Z429552 1970 anthology poetry Melbourne : Nelson , 1970
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1970
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pg. 40-41
Note: with alternate title

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