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CR composed this poem in April of 1849. It was printed here as the work of Ellen Alleyn, a pseudonym created by DGR. CR did not want to appear in the periodical under her own name.
The poem was reprinted in CR's Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862).
April 1849
First printed in The Germ 1, page 20.
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Germ text
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
CR composed this poem in April of 1849. It was printed here as the work of Ellen Alleyn, a pseudonym created by DGR. CR did not want to appear in the periodical under her own name.
The poem was reprinted in CR's Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862).
Textual History: Composition
April 1849
Printing History
First printed in The Germ 1, page 20.