BIB_ID
403259
Accession number
MA 8917.15
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1823 May 1.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to: "Mrs. Barrett/ Tea Urn/ near Slopbasin/ Breakfasttable/ China."
With an epigraph from Petrarch's Sonnet 47, in Italian: "Benedetto sia 'l giorno, e 'l mese e il anno."
With an epigraph from Petrarch's Sonnet 47, in Italian: "Benedetto sia 'l giorno, e 'l mese e il anno."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
A poem of 14 lines, beginning "Within the merry month of May,/ When eyes are bright and hopes are gay--". Written for her mother on her 42nd birthday.
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