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The Sorrows Part Two: Chorus of the Hours single work   poetry   "Ah, that a happy childhood's happiest days"
Is part of Genius Lost Charles Harpur , 1984 sequence poetry
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1847... 1847 The Sorrows Part Two: Chorus of the Hours
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Notes

  • This poem appears in a number of versions from 1847 onwards. For further details, see The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publication in the Nineteenth Century: An Analytical Finding List by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins (Canberra: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, 2002).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Chorus of the Spirits of the Earth
First line of verse: "Ah! that Childhoods happiest days"
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Author's note: From the 'Sorrows of Chatterton'
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Includes footnote signed C. H.
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Comprises 26 lines.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Chronicle 21 December 1847 Z1847487 1847 newspaper issue 1847 pg. 4
    Note: Published with alternate title.
Alternative title: Chorus of the Hours
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Comprises 36 lines.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur Charles Harpur , Elizabeth Perkins (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 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 : Angus and Robertson , 1984 pg. 843-844
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