Summer Morning in the Country, A

Title

Summer Morning in the Country, A

Alternative Title

How sweetly on the hill-side sleeps

Date

1841

Is Part Of

The New - Yorker

Bibliographic Citation

The New - Yorker Jun 12, 1841; 11, 13

Schenectady Cabinet, July 16, 1841; The Charter Oak New Series 1:25:2 (June 25, 1846); Burleigh, William Henry, and Celia Burleigh. Poems by William H. Burleigh. With a Sketch of his Life by Celia Burleigh. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871, 189-190; Spirit of the Age (Woodstock, Vermont), August 6, 1841, p. 4l The Enterprise and Vermonter (Vergennes, Vermont), July 21, 1841, p. 4; The Lamiulle Standard (Johnson, Vermont), July 10, 1841, p. 1; The St. Johnsbury Caledonian (St. Johnsbury, Vermont), July 6, 1841, p. 4; Racine Advocate (Racine, Wisconsin Territory), June 4, 1844, p. 1; The Saturday Evening Press Menasha, Wisconsin), July 23, 1870, p. 1; The Telegraph-Courier (Kenosha, Wisconsin), JUly 7, 1870, p. 2;

Note

Major changes in 1871 edition include shorter title "Summer Morning" and use of more complex modifiers in first two stanzas. These changes may be anticipated in 1846 reprint in The Charter Oak

Creator

William Henry Burleigh