The lines on this sheet were composed by P. Russell : who has received eleven wounds under the American flag, who has endured seven captivities, and remained two full years in irons, on cold stone, in a dungeon, in the Moro Castle, (in the island of Cuba) without once beholding the light of the sun...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, P.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51243.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dighton--Poetry.

Dighton.

Love poetry.

Sailors--Poetry.

Sailors.

Prisoners--Poetry.

Prisoners.

History.

West Indies--History--Poetry.

West Indies.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1810.

Begging poems.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 59 x 46 cm

Place of Publication:

[United States] : [publisher not identified], [between 1810 and 1819?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

Russell's adventures, containing a sketch of the author's own life (first line: I was born in New Hampshire, in Hillsborough County)

Filial affection (first line: In my youth I was blest by the smiles of a mother)

Russell's reflections, occasioned by a retrospective view of the scenes of his own life, while lying in irons in the Moro Castle (first line: In my youth I was nurs'd by the goddess of peace)

Love and misfortune (first line: I enter'd the mansion where dwelt my dear Charlotte)

Russell's adieu, or The lover's parting epistle (first line: Farewell, my dear Charlotte, adieu my dear true love)

The escape from Bassaterre [i.e., Basseterre]. Being an account of an action fought off Gaudaloupe, in 1805, where ninety-five Americans, and near three hundred Britons made their escape from the prison at that place. ... (first line: Come all ye bold seamen who plough the rough main).

Notes:

Six poems.

Imprint dates suggested by typography. Another edition, held by the American Antiquarian Society and filmed by Readex Microprint as a second entry for Shaw & Shoemaker 51243, is dated 1814 in a contemporary hand.

The sheet is divided into four quadrants, with one or two poems printed in two columns within ornamental borders in each quadrant; title printed across full width of sheet at head; printed area measures 55.8 x 41.1 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. 51243).

Contains:

Russell's adventures.

Filial affection.

Russell's reflections.

Love and misfortune.

Russell's adieu.

Escape from Basseterre.

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