Melancholy event at Fort Constitution, in Portsmouth harbour, on the Fourth of July, 1809 : eight men were killed and a number wounded, by the burning of about three hundred wt. of gun-powder; upon which dreadful occasion the following lines were made.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 18064a.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Poetry.

Death.

Portsmouth (N.H.)--Explosion.

Portsmouth (N.H.).

Genre:

Poetry.

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1809.

Elegies.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 37 x 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[United States] : [publisher not identified], [1809]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Verse in eleven stanzas; first line: Se [sic], fellow mortals, old and young.

Followed by an Elegiac ode, on the death of the those persons killed and mortally wounded at Fort Constitution, by another hand; first line: Almighty ruler of the skies.

At foot: Names of the killed.

Text in two columns; relief cuts of eight coffins between first and second lines of title; printed area measures 28.7 x 15.3 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. 18064a).

Contains:

Elegiac ode on the death of those persons killed and mortally wounded at Fort Constitution.

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