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A Night Scene from Homer extract   poetry   "The mouth-chafed and foam-sweating steeds"
Issue Details: First known date: 1858... 1858 A Night Scene from Homer
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46 lines.
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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 2,234 5 March 1858 Z1735946 1858 newspaper issue 1858 pg. 5
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Related Works

The Famous Night Scene in the VIII Iliad i "Chafed and sweating, the horses straight from their traces", Homer , Charles Harpur (translator), 1855 1855 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur 1984; (p. 639-643)
To the Editor of the Herald Charles Harpur , 1865 selected work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 February 1865; (p. 5)

Three versions of Harpur's 'A Night Scene from Homer', rendered in dactylic hexameters, blank verse, and heroic couplets.
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