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Untitled single work   poetry   "Night was new-throned in heaven, and we did rove"
Is part of Nora or Records of a Poet's Love Charles Harpur , 1984 sequence poetry
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1844... 1844 Untitled
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Notes

  • This poem appears in a number of versions from 1844 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).
  • Number 17 in the sequence 'Nora or Records of a Poet's Love'.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: The Evening Star
First line of verse: "The stars were lit in heaven, and we did rove,"
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald vol. 54 no. 8880 7 November 1866 Z1828527 1866 newspaper issue 1866 pg. 3
    Note: One of 10 sonnets appearing together. This one is titled "IX".
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