A Lamentation for Gen. Washington, Esq
Subtitle: commander in chief of the combined forces of America and France, during the Revolutionary War, and afterwards president of the United States of America---who died December 14th, 1799
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20518; Early American imprints -- no. 37771
Publisher: N. Coverly, Jr. printer, Milk-Street, Boston.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Poetry
Other titles: What solemn sounds the ear invade.; How sad are the tidings that sound in my ears.; Columbia's lamentation for Gen. Washington.
Notes: Verse in two stanzas with prose epilogue; first line: What solemn sounds the ear invade.

Followed by Columbia's lamentation for Gen. Washington; first line, folowing three lines of quotation: How sad are the tidings that sound in my ears.

Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 69, presented to the society in August 1814.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 24.3 x 17.1 cm.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Evans 37771

Shaw & Shoemaker 20518

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 135

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 1307