Browse Items (12 total)
- Tags: God
"New York Fountains and Astor Baths"
"Passages From a Journal at Rockaway"
"St. Catharine's Eve"
Tags: God, heaven, infidelity, John the Baptist, morals, Orthodox Church, pious, priest, tears, Temptation, The Token
"The Irish Girl"
Tags: 1842, Becket, Catholics, crucifix, drowning, God, Immigrants, Irish, orphan, Pittsfield, prejudice, Protestants, Providence, railroad, religion, servant, shanty, snow, The United States Democratic Review, widow
"The Patch-Work Quilt"
Tags: 1846, Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, Consumption, Death, Germans, God, Indians, marriage, missionaries, Patch-work, quilts, Race, Relics, Saxon, servant, Stockbridge, Waterloo, West
Matty Gore
Tags: "Despondency Corrected", 1839, 1840, bible, brothers, Buffalo, conversion, correspondence, daughters, Death, duty, Faith, farming, fathers, filial obedience, forgiveness, Frances Wright, frontier, God, housekeeping, illness, independence, lectures, letters, living in sin, Lydia Howard Sigourney, marriage, New York City, newspapers, parenthood, railroad, religion, robbery, suicide, The Religious Souvenir, William Wordsworth, women's rights
Our Robins
Tags: 1838, A Love Token for Children, Animal Cruelty, bible, botany, children, Christ, Death, flowers, God, housekeeping, Lord Byron, Mothers, Napoleon, Narcissus, orphans, robins, shooting
Saturday Night
Scene at Niagara
The Deformed Boy
Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows