Riding Together

William Morris

General Description

Date: 1856
Rhyme: abab
Meter: iambic tetrameter
Genre: ballad

Scholarly Commentary

Guest Editor: PC Fleming

Introduction

This is Morris’s second poem in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine and, like most of Morris’s poems, was reprinted in The Defense of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858).

Mackail notes the similarity between this poem and “Riding Together” (93), which Morris published in the January issue of the Magazine. The poems are thematically similar, and both repeat the rhyme between weather/together.

Printing History

First printed in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine , May, 1856. Reprinted in The Defense of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858).

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