A Lamentation for Gen. Washington, Esq. : commander in chief of the combined forces of America and France, during the Revolutionary War, and afterwards president of the United States of America---who died December 14th, 1799.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 20518.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington, George, 1732-1799--Poetry.

Washington, George.

Washington, George, 1732-1799.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1810.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 30 x 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : N. Coverly, Jr. printer, Milk-Street, Boston., [between 1810 and 1814]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Verse in two stanzas with prose epilogue; first line: What solemn sounds the ear invade.

Followed by Columbia's lamentation for Gen. Washington; first line, following three lines of quotation: How sad are the tidings that sound in my ears.

Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 69, presented to the society in August 1814.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 24.3 x 17.1 cm.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 20518).

Contains:

Columbia's lamentation for Gen. Washington.

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