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George Croly : Evening's daughter

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose/ Is drooping for thy sigh of dew/ The Hyacinth woos thy kiss to close/ In slumber sweet its eye of blue ... (Croly)' [total = 3 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine      Print: Unknown

George Croly : The Late Queen of Russia on Seeing Her Bust in the King's chamber in 1812

'The Late Queen of Russia on seeing Her Bust in the King's Chamber in 1812' 'Thour't gone from us, to weep no more...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group     

Rev. George Croly : Salathiel

'As a young man in America, he had been deeply impressed by "Salathiel", a pious prose romance of that then popular writer, the Rev. George Croly."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse      Print: Book

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