New York (State) poems, circa 1810s | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: New York (State) poems, circa 1810s

ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0253

Extent: 1.0 Volumes

Arrangement: Many of the pages are loose within the volume and the volume shows evidence of several conflicting pagination schemes.

Date Acquired: 07/28/1969

Languages: English

This volume (126 pages) includes poems on a variety of topics, including death and dying, friendship, and nature. The poems are written in ink. The poems are written in ink. A significant number of the poems are elegiac and/or addressed to widows or the recently deceased. Catchwords often do not match the first word on the following page, and the volume ends abruptly with a catchword.

Binding: Common paper wrapper; leaves mostly disbound.

Several of the volume's poems are signed "B.P.," "Laura," or "C".

Evidence suggests that the author(s) of these poems lived in north-central New York during the early 19^th century. The author refers to towns such as Bloomfield and New Lebanon and mentions people who lived in the area at the time. References to events occurring in 1810 and 1812 indicate, along with the author's penmanship and the volume's physical properties, that the volume was written in or shortly after the 1810s.

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Acquisition Source: This collection was donated by Danville Junior College.

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Box and Folder Listing

Volume 1: New York (State) Poems, [1810s]

Item 1: "Female Charms"

Item 2: "Lines on my Brother's Profile Presented to his Widow"

Item 3: "A fancied View of my Father's Grave"

Item 4: "In Memory of my Mother who died when I was Seven years old"

Item 5: "To Mrs. A--- S--- My Step Mother"

Item 6: "Times When God hides his Face"

Item 7: "The Grave of an Unfortunate Brother"

Item 8: "On Seeing The Tomb Stones of my Brother Azel Sprague."

Item 9: "to The Memory of Mrs. Fanny Gaylord, who Died February 2nd 1812"

Item 10: "To Mrs. Eunice Sprague"

Item 11: "Kindness"

Item 12: "Ode to M--- G--- on his ill state of Health"

Item 13: "Truth"

Item 14: "Ode To Silence"

Item 15: "Laura's Walk"

Item 16: "Winter"

Item 17: "To a Bird chanting on a Tree near the Window"

Item 18: "Sonnet to Death"

Item 19: "To a Yellow Bird"

Item 20: "On a young Travelling Lady confind [sic] to a sick bed."

Item 21: "To Eliza"

Item 22: "To Miss B--- M--- B--- on the death of Revd [sic] father."

Item 23: "On seeing an unknown Grave ina n Obscure Place"

Item 24: "Sonnet to Patience."

Item 25: "To a Lock of Hair."

Item 26: "To a friend, when about leaving Berkshire."

Item 27: "A version of part of the 5th and of the 7th Chapter of Esther"

Item 28: "To M--- D"

Item 29: "On Imagination"

Item 30: "To Fortune"

Item 31: "On The Close of Autumn."

Item 32: "Definition of a Tempest in the Night."

Item 33: "Sonnet to Hope"

Item 34: "Sonnet To the gentle Breeze"

Item 35: "The Rose"

Item 36: "Contentment"

Item 37: "Sonnet To Memory"

Item 38: "On a Disappointed Unfortunate yet regrettable..."

Item 39: "The Discontented Mind"

Item 40: "To the sleeping fair one"

Item 41: "To Fashion."

Item 42: "Independence"

Item 43: "Six pence worth of Poetry, York Currency"

Item 44: "On Time"

Item 45: "The 38th Chapter of Job Paraphrased"

Item 46: "Elegiac Lines on the early and sudden death of Miss Achsah Hurlbut."

Item 47: "The Stillness of Night"

Item 48: "Fancy hard to please, or Perfection no where found."

Item 49: "Lines on Pease written extempore"

Item 50: "Conjural [sic] Affection"

Item 51: "Lines on Envy"

Item 52: "Alfonzo and Orinda"

Item 53: "In The abatement of a violent pain in my head"

Item 54: "The Bequest"

Item 55: "Mira"

Item 56: "The ill Fated Alma"

Item 57: "The pensive Mind"

Item 58: "Real Friendship"

Item 59: "Lines for Christmas"

Item 60: "The Fine Morning/An address to Celia."

Item 61: "On Health."

Item 62: "Elegiac Lines on the Death of Miss Sally Banckruff"

Item 63: "Lines to the Moon"

Item 64: "Sonnet to the April Morning"

Item 65: "To a Bird caught within the Walls of a Room."

Item 66: "On Happiness"

Item 67: "Winter's Evening"

Item 68: "The Wintry Storm"

Item 69: "The Venal Morning"

Item 70: "Addressed to a tall Elm."

Item 71: "To Miss ---T-ll --- S--h"

Item 72: "To Miss B--y M-- B-k"

Item 73: "On being asked what was the real benefit of Religion"

Item 74: "A descriptive view of the Landscape round the Springs at New Lebanon"

Item 75: "Sonnet to Evening Twilight"

Item 76: "To Miss H --- H"

Item 77: "On seeing a flowret [sic] droop in my friend's parlour"

Item 78: "Lines on viewing a piece of Painting"

Item 79: "On the Rapidity of Thought"

Item 80: "Lines to Death"

Item 81: "Serious Reflections"

Item 82: "To a Miniature Picture"

Item 83: "An interview between a Father and Daughter / A Spanish Story verified."

Item 84: "Early Rising/ Addressed to Miss Frances, Whiting, at New-Milford."

Item 85: "The Complaint"

Item 86: "To Miss Frances Whiting, on early marriage"

Item 87: "Sonnet to a Snow Storm"

Item 88: "Liberty Obtained"