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Poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

David Proskauer Quaker Music

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-296
Overview This collection consists of Quaker music written by David Proskauer. It contains both handwritten and printed works, notably A Young Woman's Quaker Life, which feautures the poem Barbara Fretchie by John Greenleaf Whittier, and Proskauer's Quaker Voices: A Cantata, which features poems such as First Day Thoughts by John Greenleaf Whittier, Draw Breath by Geoffrey Weedon, Psalm 139 v. 1-7, Sonnet for a Quaker Wedding by Kenneth Boulding, and Faith by John Gould Fletcher. He's also included...
Dates: 1994 - 2018

De bello civili sive pharsalia, 1469

 Item
Identifier: Gordan MS 156
Overview ff. 1r-140r [Title:] M. Annaei Lucani Civilis Belli sive Pharsaliae Liber Primus incipit Inc: Bella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos/ Iusque datum sceleri canimus populumque potentem: Expl.: Ad campos epidaure [sic] tuos, ubi solus apertis/ Obsedit muris calcantem moenia Magnus. Finis. Deo Gratias Amen On f. 140 v the text concludes with four unidentified lines of verse: Optatos tandem tetigerunt carbasa portus/ Et sedet in tuto littore fessa ratis./ Quo deus emeritas peragam tibi...
Dates: 1469

George Dillwyn commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-009
Overview

George Dillwyn was a Quaker minister, and his commonplace book includes poetry, short stories, hymns, extracts from letters and meeting minutes, and quotes from famous authors such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Chaucer. The majority of the volume is composed of lists of extracts organized by topic, including topics such as: anger, affectation, old age, ambition, abstinence, religion, books, revenge, praise, sincerity, death, and temperance.

Dates: Undated

Elfreth family commonplace books

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-010
Overview

This collection is comprised of five volumes of the commonplace books of various members of the Elfreth family, including Rebecca P. Elfreth, Jacob R. Elfreth Sr., Jacob R. Elfreth Jr,. and Jane P. Elfreth. The volumes include poetry, extracts, pressed leaves and flowers, and clippings of illustrations.

Dates: 1820-1853

The Erodelphian

 Collection
Identifier: HCL-003-082
Overview

This collection contains the eleventh issue of The Erodelphian, a hand-written literary journal containing essays and poetry.

Dates: 1835 February 28

Jonathan Evans scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-022
Overview

The scrapbook of Jonathan Evans was originally used as an account book, circa 1775-1782, and was later used as a scrapbook. The volume includes newspaper clippings, which generally focus on poetry, philosophy, and politics, pasted in over the original financial records.

Dates: 1817

Joseph Fisher manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-129
Overview

This poem, written by Joseph Fisher to Carmel Friends, is related to the religious tensions among Quakers during the Hicksite-Orthodox separation. It is addressed to a meeting in Carmel, to which Joseph Fisher used to belong. The original poem was written in 1832, and this copy was made by Lydia Morlan in 1833.

Dates: 1833

Thomas Fisher manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-119
Overview

This collection is comprised of the single volume manuscript of poetry, written by Thomas Fisher. Poems included in the volume are largely related to related to American history.

Dates: Undated.

John Fling commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-012
Overview

The commonplace book of John Fling includes poetry and extracts arranged by topic. Some of the later extracts are signed by Hannah Fling.

Dates: 1786-1816

Mary Flowers commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-013
Overview

The commonplace book of Mary Flowers includes copied letters, the account of the convincement (conversion to Quakerism) of Jane Hoskins, elegies, testimonies, extracts of meeting minutes left by Thomas Brown, and extracts from speeches.

Dates: 1757-1761