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Three youths drowned. : Elegiac stanzas, in three parts, on the misfortune, and death, of several respectable youths, who, attempting to sail for diversion, were overset--three of whom were drowned. / Composed by Erastus Brown. ; (Published by request.).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Erastus.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 34224.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairchild, John Hamlin, 1791-1813.
- Fairchild, John Hamlin.
- Drowning--Poetry.
- Drowning.
- Death--Poetry.
- Death.
- Boating accidents.
- Massachusetts--Tyringham.
- Drowning--Massachusetts--Tyringham.
- Boating accidents--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Poems -- 1815.
- Elegies.
- Acrostics.
- Physical Description:
- 20 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stockbridge [Mass.]: : Printed at the Herald Office., 1815.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Concerning a boating accident at Six Mile Pond, Tyringham, Mass., on July 23, 1812.
- Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription.
- Includes acrostics on the names of those who lived and died.
- "An acrostic, on Mr. J.H.F. [John Hamlin Fairchild] who died at Alford. Sept. 9th, 1813, in the 22d year of his age, with a short illness."--p. 18.
- 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. 34224).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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