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Untitled single work   poetry   "Be his rest who sleeps below"
Is part of Autumnal Leaves Charles Harpur , 1867 sequence poetry
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
First known date: 1851 Issue Details: First known date: 1851... 1851 Untitled
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Notes

  • This poem appears in a number of versions from 1851 onwards. Some versions appear with the title 'An Epitaph' and with a comma at the end of the first line. 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).
  • Number three in the sequence 'Autumnal Leaves'.

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Notes:
16 lines.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald vol. 55 no. 9033 7 May 1867 Z1845367 1867 newspaper issue 1867 pg. 5
  • 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. 296
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