Manuscript/Mixed Material Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; Poetry album
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Image 1 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … BLACKWELL FAMILY ANNA BLACKWELL POETRY ALBUM
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 2 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Written in Annas Album Philadelphia Sep 11 1834 I this day visited the spot at Kensington where William Penn entered into treaty with the Indians The identical Elm Tree under which the…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 3 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … surrounded Indeed the whole neighborhood is low and dirty broken into mud wharves and lumber yards and disfigured by miserable shanties The locality is altogether most vulgar and strangely inharmonious with its…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 4 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Fevers malignant train tornadoes dire The sweeping hurricane heavens scathing fire All rushd with fury from the Almightys hand And fixed their empire oer the fated land Swift messengers of wrath They…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 5 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … These often meet us sudden as the storm May Floras lovliest sweetest pride deform That temporary gloom our steps attend Yet tis but transient and our sorrows end The Packet that should…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 6 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Deep in the valley flows the backward tide Of Vaga while the floating Vessels ride Down toward the ocean where the kindred streams Of Wye and Severn in one volume gleams Where…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 7 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … My dear Marianne I received your message Inviting your Aunt to inscribe here a passage Of some sort or other spun out of the brain Supposing the Muse should set matters in…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 8 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Haste then my Love to Him who gives Seed wherein such true virtues lies That they who plant will now obtain Fruit shall for evermore remain Wor 12 Mar 1832 I see…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 9 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … How soon alas A shade comes oer The skies and hearts So bright before And how soon doth Hope Her castles build And with beaming light The dim future gild Like the…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 10 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … To England Oh England lovely England my own my native land How ardently I long once more on thy bright soil to stand I long to see thy verdant hills where the…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 11 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Evening Rhymes The glowing sky That fades away To softer light At the close of day The strange wild shapes So often seen In the fairy clouds Of a summer een The…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 12 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … xxxx Reclined beneath a palm on Egypts plain The traveller invokes the breeze in vain x x x The sun has set â and now the earliest gem Rises to deck Nights…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 13 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … The Spirits Mystery When twilight falls upon the darkning earth And solemn silence fills the vault of Heaven When sound of melody or speech or mirth Is to the listening ear no…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 14 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Rest for the weary Where Luxurys found And the magic of wealth Throws its charms all around Rest for the weary Where high deeds are done Where prowess hath conquered And laurels…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 15 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … To a friend Yes maiden dear There is a balm That een the aching heart can calm And heal the wounded spirit sad It is the balm of Gilead Ever to you…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 16 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Your beauty is dear to the eyes that weep And without you oh who would a festival keep To the Heros proud triumph the path of the bride Oh what could atone…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 17 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Go draw the world from pole to pole And heap a treasure for the soul To fill its vast desires Can it in aught terrestrial find The bliss to which the restless…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 18 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … An Acrostic to Marianne on her birthday Maiden to you may Time aye bring A pleasure ever on his wing Real friendships sunny glow Illumine your path whereer you go And may…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 19 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … My first is a compound of Madness Folly Of Passions and Murder the most melancholy Of depraved Human nature tis such a display As no Painter or Poet can fully portray My…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 20 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Enigma Two of my first belong to the king My second is often a mark of state My cohole is a common crawling thing Which most people very much hate To all…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 21 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … Written for Henrys Bibles Henry Browne Blackwell November 12th 1831 Accept my Son this holy Book Presented by your Fathers hand In it may you delight to look And all its mysteries…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834
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Image 22 of Blackwell Family Papers: Other Blackwell Family Papers, 1834-1945; Anna Blackwell Papers, 1834-1900; Miscellany; … And now she thinks how once from home She slyly stole away And hidden in the summerhouse Sat all alone at play Waiting in childish glee for them To find her where…
- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1834