1870 · n.p., n.d.
by Moulton, Louise Chandler
n.p., n.d.: [likely London, 1870. 12mo, 6 stanzas, 24 lines; a touch of lightness to the ink, and her hand rather delicate, mounted; very small tear starting at one mount. The poem is headed by Psalm 88.18: "Lover and Friend Hast Thou put far from me." Moulton's first volume of poems, Swallow Flights (its name inspired by a lyric of Tennyson) was published in England in 1877; the American version was titled simply Poems. The manuscript poem here did in fact appear in print in this first book of Moulton's verse, pp. 64-65, which might also suggest the manuscript itself, though not explicitly dated, may well come from very early in her poetic career. (Inventory #: 44838)