Hymns for a Mother
- Title
- Hymns for a Mother
- Alternative Title
- Collection in The Maniac
- Date
- 1849 (latest)
- Bibliographic Citation
- George Shepard Burleigh, The Maniac: and Other Poems. Philadelphia: J.W. Moore, 1849
- Related resource
- Name for a grouping of four poems - contains "The Dead Boy-Babe," "The Babe's Welcome in Heaven," "The First Born," "The First Smile" - published in their entirety in The Maniac and Other Poems. Follow the links below for the text
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First-Born, The
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First Smile, The
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Dead Boy-Babe, The
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Babe’s Welcome in Heaven, The
- Subject
- Motherhood
- note
- Hang-bird’s Nest, The
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The Hang-Bird's Nest illustration
- Illustration comes from a later poem of George S. Burleigh, the Hang-Bird's Nest, in an 1886 publication.
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