The Dream single work   poetry   "In sleep with a sweet pang my brain was wrung"
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
Composed: Jerrys Plains, Jerrys Plains - Warkworth - Mount Thorley area, Singleton area, Hunter Valley, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,
Issue Details: First known date: 1843... 1843 The Dream
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Notes

  • This poem appears in a number of versions from 1843 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).
  • Revised versions of this poem later incorporated into the sequence 'Nora or Records of a Poet's Love'
  • Number nine in the sequence 'Nora or Records of a Poet's Love'.

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Notes:
Author's note: From 'Rosa; or The Hundred Sonnets of Love'
First line of verse: "I [sic] sleep my brain was with a sweet pang wrung,"
  • 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 'VII'.
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