A mournful song, on the death of the wife and child of Mr. Nathaniel Knights, of Windham: who fell off the bridge, at the falls above Horse-Beef Mills, on Presumpscutt River
Poetry. Printed area measures: 40.8 x 51.3 cm. Sheet contains three poems, each within mourning border and printed in two columns divided by heavy rules, with coffins at head. Printed area of first poem measures: 39.5 x 14.6 cm. First poem is in 40 stanzas. Author's name not on item but printed on separate broadside editions of first poem and of last poem. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. With: Shaw, Thomas. A mournful song. Part II -- Shaw, Thomas. Melancholy shipwreck. Intended to be separated. First line: All ye kind husbands, pray draw near.
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