All Items 2 Collection 1 Archives & Special Collections 2 Contributor 1 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 2 Topic 6 Bereavement 2 Christianity 2 Poetry 2 Religious aspects 2 Archives 1 Friends and associates 1 show more 1 show fewer Part Of 1 Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers 2 Genre 1 Poems 2 Subject 3 Bereavement – Religious aspects – Christianity – Poetry 2 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 – Archives 1 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 – Friends and associates 1 Why slow & solemn on yon plain Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 A fragment of a poem by Edward Hitchcock discussing death, the grief of a widow, and the comfort to be found in religion. The sheet also has calculations and a list of towns written on it in pencil, as well as a list of several items including "shoe blacking." Why slow & solemn on yon plain It gives the mourner's heaving bosom rest Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 A poem by Edward Hitchcock written about the death of his friend, Jackson [probably Jackson Dickinson]. It gives the mourner's heaving bosom rest
