A funeral elegy, occasioned by the tragedy, at Salem, [electronic resource] : near Boston, on Thursday afternoon the seventeenth of June, 1773; at which time the 10 following persons, seven women and three men were drowned, having been out on a party of pleasure ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friend to the deceased.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drowning--Massachusetts--Salem--Poetry.

Drowning.

Genre:

Single sheet verse.

Broadsides.

Elegies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet ) ill. (relief cut) ;

Other Title:

Funeral elegy, occasioned by the tragedy, at Salem,

Place of Publication:

[Boston? : s.n, 1773]

Notes:

Verse in fifteen numbered stanzas; first line: Awake, my muse, and tune the song.

Note at foot of sheet signed: A friend to the deceased.

Text in two columns within mourning borders; relief cut of ten coffins with initials of the dead, at head.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 598

English Short Title Catalog, W35705.

OCLC:

511243198