Upon the drying up that ancient river, the river Merrymak.
Contributors: Winthrop, John, 1681-1747.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 39752.
Publisher: Printed by Timothy Green?
Published: 1721
Place of publication: [New London, Conn.?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Rivers -- Massachusetts -- Poetry.; Rivers -- Connecticut -- Poetry.; Broadsides.; Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) -- Poetry.; Quinebaug River (Mass. and Conn.) -- Poetry.
Other titles: Long did Euphrates make us glad.; And is old Merrymak come to an end?
Notes: Verse of thirty-six lines; first line: Long did Euphrates make us glad. Signed and dated: January 15. 1719,20. S.S. [i.e., Samuel Sewall].

Followed by another poem, entitled, Connecticut's flood, on Merrymak's ebb; first line: And is old Merrymak come to an end? Signed and dated, "Extempore, March 10, 1720,21. Anthropos." Attributed to John Winthrop, of New-London, by M. Halsey Thomas in The diary of Samuel Sewall, New York, 1973, v. 2, p. 1100-1101.

According to Sewall's diary, an earlier edition of his poem was printed on February 8, 1720/21. No copy is known.

Imprint suggested by Johnson.

Printed side by side on sheet; possibly intended to be separated.

Bristol B613.

Shipton & Mooney 39752.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 480.

Johnson, H.A.  New London, 137.

Wegelin, O.  Amer. poetry, 357.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39752).