The Poet Boy's Love Wishes single work   poetry   "O that the moon now so silverly beaming"
Is part of Poems by Charles Harpur Charles Harpur , 1846 series - author poetry
  • Author:agent Charles Harpur http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/harpur-charles
Issue Details: First known date: 1846... 1846 The Poet Boy's Love Wishes
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  • Number II in the series Poems by Charles Harpur.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser 3 June 1846 Z1589193 1846 newspaper issue 1846 pg. 1
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Hawkesbury Courier no. 98 30 July 1846 Z1719880 1846 newspaper issue 1846 pg. 4
    Note: Editor's note: [The above lines are verry [sic] pretty, but the genius of the Bard, we think, soars too high for our comprehension. If it was somewhat more confined to terrestrial objects we should have read the verses with somewhat greater satisfaction - Ed. H. C.]
    Editor's attribution: Maitland Mercury.
Alternative title: Yearnings
First line of verse: ""Ah, that yon Moon, when thus silverly beaming,"
  • 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. 449-450
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