Appendix V
Reading edition
The Thorn
William Taylor's translation of Bürger's
Pfarrer's Tochter
appeared in
The Monthly Magazine
(1796), and as the same volume contained contributions by Coleridge and Lamb, it is possible that Wordsworth saw it. Bürger's Pastor's Daughter murdered her natural child, but it is her ghost which haunts its grave, which she had torn
With bleeding nails beside the pond, And nightly pines the pool beside.
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