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[librarycompany]

It’s a #PublishersBindingThursday double feature! Both of our copies of Willis’ Sacred Poems (New York, 1847) are bound in a green and black printed-pattern cloth. We can’t decide which is our favorite. Can you?

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Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867. Sacred poems. / By N.P. Willis.. New-York: : Published by Clark & Austin., MDCCCXLVII. [1847] 126 p. :  12 cm

[thepoetryapp]

They bore him to his mother, and he lay Upon her knees till noon—and then he died! She had watch'd every breath, and kept her hand from "The Shunamite" by Nathaniel Parker Willis https://www.texts.at/oob