A death song of an Indian chief
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1800
Place of publication: United States?
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America; Poetry
Other titles: Sun sets at night and the stars shun the day
Notes: Caption title; first line of poem: The sun sets at night and the stars shun the day.

First published in America in Royall Tyler's The Contrast (1787) and in Philip Freneau's American Museum, so sometimes attributed to Tyler or Freneau; first separate English printing was issued in London around 1795; Mrs. Hunter describes its genesis in her Poems (1802).