Notes
4] Yet: not in 1899.
13] failing: `sinking' (1899).
18] fall: `drop' (1899).
20] wake: `fall" (1899).
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Original text: Poems and Drawings of Elizabeth Siddal,
ed. Roger C. Lewis and Mark Samuels Lasner (Wolfville, N.S.: Wombat Press, 1978): 15.
B-11 5641 Fisher Rare Books Library
First publication date:
1899
Publication date note: Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism:
Papers 1854 to 1862, ed. William Michael Rossetti (London: George Allen, 1899):
156.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2001
Recent editing: 1:2002/10/5
Composition date:
1856
Composition date note: Spring 1856? (Lewis and Lasner 24).
Rhyme: abcb (abab once)