Note:
In the Wordsworth household this poem went by the name of "The Singing Bird" as well as
The Sailor's Mother
.
"Thursday (March 11th).—A fine morning. William worked at the poem of The Singing Bird. ..."
"Friday (March 12th).—William finished his poem of The Singing Bird."
(Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal.)—Ed.
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