Details

Subject(s)

• Fires—Maine—Portland—Poetry [Browse]
• Fourth of July celebrations—Maine—Portland—Poetry [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Broadsides [Browse]
• Ballads [Browse]

Series

American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 688. [More in this series]

Notes

• Verse in twelve stanzas; first line: This week before the people comes melancholy line.
• Presumably printed in Maine, where Harmon lived most of his life.
• Another edition is printed from different settings of type; most noticeably without the ornate type noted here. A third edition, with an exclamation point following Portland in the title, includes fourteen stanzas.
• Text in two columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 20.8 x 12.2 cm.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 688).

Place name(s)

United States Maine.

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