Talk:The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/The Night-piece, to Julia

Variations between Versions by Different Editors
Ideally, the lines in the poem should be numbered in the article; a small formatting problem to solve.

Quiller-Couch Version
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir (1919). The Oxford Book of English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1919, [c1901]; Bartleby.com, 1999. www.bartleby.com/101/262.html. Retrieved December 8, 2006. Easchiff 03:32, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Palgrave Version
Here are some the variances (by line number) that I've noticed in the Francis Turner Palgrave version at www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/lporh10.txt (compared to the Quiller-Couch version).

6: Will-o-th'-wisp 8: line ends with a comma 11: line ends with a semicolon 14: line ends with a comma 15: Like tapers clear, without number. comma added 19: Thy silvery feet,

Easchiff 21:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Lancashire Version
A version edited by Ian Lancashire is at Representative Poetry Online, rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/999.html. Again, miniscule changes in punctuation, abbreviation (the vs. th', silvery vs. silv'ry), uses of dashes (mislight vs. mis-light).

Online text copyright © 2005, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto. Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Robert Herrick, Hesperides (London: for John Williams and F. Eglesfield to be sold by Thomas Hunt, 1648), of which a section called His Noble Numbers: or, his Pious Pieces has a separate title-page dated 1647. Facs. edn. Menston: Scolar, 1969. PR 3512 H4 1648A ROBA First publication date: 1648 RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott RP edition: 3RP 1.202-03. Recent editing: 4:2002/2/6 Easchiff 02:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

"Limerick" Form
This poem has a form very similar to the modern "Limerick," as my teacher Hallett Smith observed long ago after a lovely reading.Easchiff 21:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Glossary

 * Will o' th' wisp: "the phenomenon of ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or in twilight hovering over damp ground in still air, often over bogs."Easchiff 03:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * glow-worm: likely the European firefly Lampyris noctiluca.
 * slow-worm : likely the snake-like lizard Anguis fragilis; Herrick seems to have understood that the slow-worm was not a snake species. Easchiff 22:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC) Easchiff 03:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)