Verses written on revisiting a Place after many years absence, Parham, 1814 : autograph manuscript of a poem.

Record ID: 
108759
Accession number: 
MA 2928
Author: 
Crabbe, George, 1754-1832.
Credit: 
Gift of Marie Leontine Graves Bullock, 1975.
Description: 
1 item (1 page) ; 11.4 x 12.3 cm
Notes: 

With a note inserted below the title "Copied for Mrs. Hope June 19, 1819."
Written on a fragment of paper with drafts of what appear to be a letter on the verso.
Crabbe's wife Sara died September 21, 1813.
An introduction to the poem, in the publication cited below, explains "Before finally quitting Leicestershire, my father paid a short visit to his sister at Aldborough, from whom he was about to be still more widely divided; and one day was given to a solitary ramble among the scenery of bygone years - Parham and the woods of Glemham, then in the first blossom of May. He did not return until night and in his note-book I find the following brief record of this mournful visit."

Summary: 

Being a poem of three four-line verses beginning "Yes, I behold again the place / The seat of joy, the source of pain" and ending "For Death has made its charm his prey, / And joy is buried in her grave."

Provenance: 
Gift of Marie Leontine Graves Bullock, 1975.