The Levee single work   poetry   "And Ye can prate of Liberty! and Ye"
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 The Levee
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Notes

  • Epigraph: They were stripped naked, and compelled to dance before the image of the God to whom they were to be offered. - Robertson's History of the Conquest of Mexico
  • 'Criticises those who attended the Levee.' - Webby
  • A levee, in honour of Her Majesty's birthday, was held at Government House on 26 May 1845.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Atlas vol. 1 no. 27 31 May 1845 Z1573529 1845 newspaper issue 1845 pg. 313
    Note:
    • Epigraph: They were stripped naked, and compelled to dance before the image of the God to whom they were to be offered. - Robertson's History of the Conquest of Mexico
    • Published anonymously in this source.
Alternative title: After the Levee
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Poems of a Life Lord Sherbrooke , London : Kegan Paul, Trench , 1884 Z1239560 1884 selected work poetry London : Kegan Paul, Trench , 1885 pg. 81-82
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The Levee i "We should be 'slaves' indeed, if we could bow", 1845 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature , 7 June vol. 4 no. 98 1845; (p. 266-267)
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Subjects:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1845
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