Notes
1] Strephon: traditional name (like Colin) for a shepherd in classical pastoral poetry.
Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.
Original text: Love Songs (New York: Macmillan, 1917): 7. PS 3539 .E15 L8 1917 Robarts Library
First publication date:
1917
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2004
Recent editing: 1:2004/1/30
Form: quatrains
Rhyme: abcb