On the Dark Day, May nineteenth, 1780.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43859.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curiosities and wonders--Poetry.

Curiosities and wonders.

Disasters--Religious aspects--Poetry.

Disasters.

Forest fires--New England.

Forest fires.

Repentance--Poetry.

Repentance.

Disasters--Religious aspects.

New England.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1810.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [between 1810 and 1814]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Verse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might.

The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, numbers 57.

Dated [1780?] by Bristol, Ford, and Wegelin. American Antiquarian Society copy 1 bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, volume II, numbers 21, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, compare Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 26.4 x 15.1 cm.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 43859).

Cited in:

Bristol B5152

Shipton and Mooney 43859

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 697

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2269

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 194

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