Poems

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VG, 1st ed. In full black leather, blind tooling at edges, corners bumped. Spine, raised bands, gilt titles, edges rubbed. Internally, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., ink inscription to ffep, half title, [2], [3], (iv-vi), [2], 3-357 pp, with the tipped in Corrigenda, printed by C Whittinham. (162*96 mm),. (Allibone 1382). Moultrie, Church of England clergyman and poet, whose Poems, reached a third edition in 1852. This volume focuses on family life, and contains 'Our First Sorrow', a moving record of the loss of a baby son, and 'The Three Sons', prompted by the same event. This poem and 'My Brother's Grave' were the two most often praised and reprinted during Moultrie's lifetime. See ODNB.