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    Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
    Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
    Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
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    Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature

    By Edmund H. (Edmund Henry) Garrett and Edmund Gosse

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature

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      Victorian Songs - Edmund H. (Edmund Henry) Garrett

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Victorian Songs, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Victorian Songs

      Lyrics of the Affections and Nature

      Author: Various

      Commentator: Edmund Gosse

      Editor: Edmund H. Garrett

      Illustrator: Edmund H. Garrett

      Release Date: September 28, 2008 [EBook #26715]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VICTORIAN SONGS ***

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      All Plates except the Frontispiece were originally printed on right-hand pages. Some have been shifted slightly to fall between poems. The List of Illustrations shows their original location (facing page). Spacing of contractions such as I ’ve follows the original.

      Contents

      Index of First Lines

      List of Illustrations

      Introduction

      Victorian Songs

      "‘Let some one sing to vs, lightlier move

      The minvtes fledged with mvsic’."

      TENNYSON

      — Title Page Text —

      Copyright, 1895.

      By Edmund H. Garrett.

      University Press:

      John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

      Some editions of the book have a two-page Editor’s Note before the Contents, acknowledging the publishers and authors who have given permission for the use of many of the songs included in this volume. It has been omitted from this e-text.

      Where are the songs I used to know?    

      Christina Rossetti.

      Listen—Songs thou ’lt hear

      Through the wide world ringing.

      Barry Cornwall.

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