(Battle of Bunker Hill)A Poem on the Bloody Engagement That was Fought on Bunker's Hill in Charlestown New-England, on the 17th of June, 1775. Chelmsford: Printed and Sold by Nathaniel Coverly, 1775 Broadside (362 x 230 mm). Ten lines of headline surmounted by a crude wood-engraving of the battle (which also serves as an initial frame), text in twenty-six quatrains in two columns separated by a row of type ornaments, the whole within a border of type ornaments; lightly browned and soiled, minor marginal loss at lower left. Matted and housed in half red morocco folding-box, chemise. A contemporary broadside poem on the Battle of Bunker Hill, with a wood-engraving of the Battle. The present broadside—one of several versions of the Reverend Rich's earnest verse—offers a contemporary response to one of the earliest events of the Revolutionary War, with the poem beginning "Americans pray lend an Ear, | And you a solemn Tale shall hear. | Twas on the seventeenth of June, | Men were cut down all in their bloom." The poem then relates the circumstances of the Battle, interpreting the suffering thereby visited upon New England as a consequence of sin, but nevertheless urging the colonists to win their freedom. The subtitle of the work conveys its tenor: "Together with some Remarks on the Cruelty and Barbarity of the British Troops, by Destroying the above mention'd Town by Fire, by which a Number of Distress'd Inhabitants were forced to Flee from the Flames, to seek Relief and Shelter among their Sympathizing Brethern in the neighbouring Towns." Reverend Elisha Rich, who was a resident of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, when these lines were composed, authored four broadside poems on Revolutionary War subjects, as well as three pamphlets. All were printed by Nathaniel Coverly, six of the seven while he was living and working in Chelmsford. This broadside is also found with an additional woodcut of a coffin bearing the name of General Joseph Warren. The Chelmsford militia fought at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; Moses Parker, captain of the militia, died of wounds sustained at the latter battle, which might have partially inspired Rich to write this narrative and pedagogical poem. REFERENCECelebration of My Country 56; ESTC W35520; Evans 14426; Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides 1922; Wegelin 322
(Battle of Bunker Hill)A Poem on the Bloody Engagement That was Fought on Bunker's Hill in Charlestown New-England, on the 17th of June, 1775. Chelmsford: Printed and Sold by Nathaniel Coverly, 1775 Broadside (362 x 230 mm). Ten lines of headline surmounted by a crude wood-engraving of the battle (which also serves as an initial frame), text in twenty-six quatrains in two columns separated by a row of type ornaments, the whole within a border of type ornaments; lightly browned and soiled, minor marginal loss at lower left. Matted and housed in half red morocco folding-box, chemise. A contemporary broadside poem on the Battle of Bunker Hill, with a wood-engraving of the Battle. The present broadside—one of several versions of the Reverend Rich's earnest verse—offers a contemporary response to one of the earliest events of the Revolutionary War, with the poem beginning "Americans pray lend an Ear, | And you a solemn Tale shall hear. | Twas on the seventeenth of June, | Men were cut down all in their bloom." The poem then relates the circumstances of the Battle, interpreting the suffering thereby visited upon New England as a consequence of sin, but nevertheless urging the colonists to win their freedom. The subtitle of the work conveys its tenor: "Together with some Remarks on the Cruelty and Barbarity of the British Troops, by Destroying the above mention'd Town by Fire, by which a Number of Distress'd Inhabitants were forced to Flee from the Flames, to seek Relief and Shelter among their Sympathizing Brethern in the neighbouring Towns." Reverend Elisha Rich, who was a resident of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, when these lines were composed, authored four broadside poems on Revolutionary War subjects, as well as three pamphlets. All were printed by Nathaniel Coverly, six of the seven while he was living and working in Chelmsford. This broadside is also found with an additional woodcut of a coffin bearing the name of General Joseph Warren. The Chelmsford militia fought at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; Moses Parker, captain of the militia, died of wounds sustained at the latter battle, which might have partially inspired Rich to write this narrative and pedagogical poem. REFERENCECelebration of My Country 56; ESTC W35520; Evans 14426; Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides 1922; Wegelin 322
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